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Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 11:47:20 +0100
From: Morten Helgesen <morten.helgesen@nextframe.net>
To: Hugo Mills <hugo-lkml@carfax.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: Oops in kswapd, 2.4.19 kernel and before
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Hey Hugo, 

On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 10:24:39AM +0000, Hugo Mills wrote:
>    Hi,
> 
>    This is the third time I've tried to report this problem, with no
> response so far. One last try. If you're not interested, please tell
> me and I won't bother you any more...
> 
>    I'm getting regular oopsen in kswapd on my 2.4.19 kernel. They
> generally appear to happen while running Amanda (a tape backup
> utility) -- although I've not identified exactly which component of
> Amanda triggers it. The machine is lightly stressed with regard to
> memory usage, although I suspect much of it is (currently) swapped out
> (I'm running postgres and apache, but they don't get much use at the
> moment):

[snip]

I think this is the same issue I reported here : 
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103226236223247&w=2

Upgrading to 2.4.20-pre7 has solved the problem for me ... Haven`t
had time to look into what actually caused/fixed it. 

== Morten

-- 

"Livet er ikke for nybegynnere" - sitat fra en klok person.

mvh
Morten Helgesen 
UNIX System Administrator & C Developer 
Nextframe AS
admin@nextframe.net / 93445641
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