Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262677AbVBCOsY (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Feb 2005 09:48:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263491AbVBCOj3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Feb 2005 09:39:29 -0500 Received: from alog0321.analogic.com ([208.224.222.97]:6784 "EHLO chaos.analogic.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263162AbVBCOhW (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Feb 2005 09:37:22 -0500 Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 09:37:33 -0500 (EST) From: linux-os Reply-To: linux-os@analogic.com To: Andries Brouwer cc: Linux kernel Subject: Re: Joe User DOS kills Linux-2.6.10 In-Reply-To: <20050203142943.GB5680@pclin040.win.tue.nl> Message-ID: References: <20050203003334.GA5680@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <20050203142943.GB5680@pclin040.win.tue.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1362 Lines: 34 On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Andries Brouwer wrote: > 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. > I just executed `mkswap` on both of my swap partitions. The original swap partitions were created using very early tools. I will now try to see if I get the same error, but I can't do it now because I need a "work-break". Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.6.10 on an i686 machine (5537.79 BogoMips). Notice : All mail here is now cached for review by Dictator Bush. 98.36% of all statistics are fiction. - 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/