Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262510AbVBCOpo (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Feb 2005 09:45:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263321AbVBCOkY (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Feb 2005 09:40:24 -0500 Received: from kweetal.tue.nl ([131.155.3.6]:51726 "EHLO kweetal.tue.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263184AbVBCO3u (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Feb 2005 09:29:50 -0500 Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 15:29:43 +0100 From: Andries Brouwer To: linux-os Cc: Linux kernel Subject: Re: Joe User DOS kills Linux-2.6.10 Message-ID: <20050203142943.GB5680@pclin040.win.tue.nl> References: <20050203003334.GA5680@pclin040.win.tue.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i X-Spam-DCC: : Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 855 Lines: 19 On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 07:28:50AM -0500, linux-os wrote: > I ran badblocks (all night). There were none. It's a SCSI disk > and it requires chunks of DMA RAM for each write. The machine > just croaks when it gets low on RAM and tries to write to > SCSI swap which requires RAM. In some other post you said that you were writing past the end of the partition or disk. If the disk is fine and you have reproducible errors then the first thing to check is whether your partition table is correct, whether your swap signature is correct, whether the total size of the disk is recognized correctly at boot time. - 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/