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Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 16:07:35 +0100
From: Erik Mouw <J.A.K.Mouw@ITS.TUDelft.NL>
To: Elmer Joandi <elmer@ylenurme.ee>
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Subject: Re: OOPS: 2.4.0-test10-pre6 around reiserfs 3.6.18
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On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 05:02:32AM +0200, Elmer Joandi wrote:
> under serious memory shortage, memory hog running and doing random access
> over 133 MB(128MB ram) and disk output as fast as it could.
> swap(128M) free = 0M, stable high disk io for long time, then
> me killing X with -9 , got oops.
     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Known problem. When you killed X, all shells wanted to update the
.bash_history (or .history) file at the same time, which triggered the
bug.

> /home is on reiserfs, which is on raid, which has 5 slices all on same
> disk (for fun).
> 
> 
> Nov  4 07:22:32 fw kernel:  printing eip: 
> Nov  4 07:22:32 fw kernel: c0133296 
> Nov  4 07:22:32 fw kernel: *pde = 00000000 
> Nov  4 07:22:32 fw kernel: Oops: 0000 
> Nov  4 07:22:32 fw kernel: CPU:    0 
> Nov  4 07:22:32 fw kernel: EIP:    0010:[block_read_full_page+14/500] 
                                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Yes, this looks like the symptom.

This was fixed in 2.4.0-test10-pre7, please upgrade to 2.4.0-test10
(final version) and see if it fixed your problem.


Erik

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