Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265245AbUAPFVs (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jan 2004 00:21:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265246AbUAPFVs (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jan 2004 00:21:48 -0500 Received: from smtp-send.myrealbox.com ([192.108.102.143]:4552 "EHLO smtp-send.myrealbox.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265245AbUAPFVp (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jan 2004 00:21:45 -0500 Message-ID: <400774E0.8020508@kriminell.com> Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 06:21:36 +0100 From: marcel cotta User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031107 Debian/1.5-3 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.1: kernel BUG at mm/swapfile.c:806 References: <400751B1.40608@kriminell.com> <20040115203419.76332f6a.akpm@osdl.org> <40076B62.9000108@kriminell.com> <20040115204302.2909af64.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040115204302.2909af64.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1839 Lines: 65 Andrew Morton wrote: > marcel cotta wrote: > >>Andrew Morton wrote: >> >>>marcel cotta wrote: >>> >>> >>>>i got this oops after the box swapped like crazy under X for about 5 >>>>minutes >>>>while swapping it was nearly unusable (jerky mouse, console switching >>>>took 10 seconds) >>>>the extreme performance drop is always reproducible when swapping starts >>>> >>>> >>>>------------[ cut here ]------------ >>>>kernel BUG at mm/swapfile.c:806! >>> >>> >>>Amazing. Are you using a swapfile, or are you swapping to a block device? >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >>hehe, hasnt been reported for a while eh ;) >> >>i used swapfiles, one static 50mb file and the rest in temp 16MB >>blocks managed by swapd > > > What is `swapd'? > > it checks the remaining free memory every n seconds and creates swapfiles by n size if needed the README: swapd 0.2 (May 21, 2000), copyright Neven Lovric swapd is a dynamic swapping manager for Linux. It provides the system with as much swap space (virtual memory) as is required at a particular time by dynamicly creating swap files. This is more convinient than using fixed swap files and/or partitions because they (a) are unused most of the time and are just taking up disk space; and (b) provide a limited amount of virtual memory. This program is free software released under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Please refer to file 'COPYING' for more information. The latest version of this program can be found at http://cvs.linux.hr/swapd or at ftp.linux.hr in /pub/swapd. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/