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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: Re: VM scrambling pages if space is exceeded
In-Reply-To: <19980420024251.42870@follo.net> from Eivind Eklund at "Apr 20, 98 02:42:51 am"
To: eivind@yes.no (Eivind Eklund)
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 20:38:57 -0500 (EST)
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> On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 07:46:48PM +0200, Eivind Eklund wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 12:36:11PM -0500, Russell Cattelan wrote:
> > > This problem has been cropping up with "current" for about the
> > > last month. The basic problem shows up with daemon processes 
> > > coreing sortly after swap space is maxed out.
> > 
> > [... snip of daemons sig11'ening...]
> > 
> > > I wasn't sure if I had bad bits at some point but I have two systems
> > > exhibiting the same behavior.
> > 
> > I _had_ this problem, but it went away when I recompiled with the
> > latest kernel sources (yesterday).  At that point, I was out of date
> > by a couple of weeks.
> 
> This is incorrect.  It has re-surfaced; it only took longer to occur
> than it has before (which might just be random chance).
> 
> John: if you need hardware details, setup details, a login, or want me
> to run any experiments: Just ask (as long as it doesn't involve
> significant risk of scrambling my filesystems ;-)
> 
It is probably in the upper-level code.  I'll start looking at it in the
next few hours.  I'll bug you if I need help :-).

John

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