Re: 2.4.1-pre8 losing pages

2001-01-28 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Peter Horton wrote: > Okay, scratch that. It does still happen when there's no swap, but for > some reason it happens a lot less often. Looks like it's timing related, > it only fails when using 7200rpm drives, not older 5400rpm ones (even > though they too are using UDMA33).

Re: 2.4.1-pre8 losing pages

2001-01-28 Thread Peter Horton
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 07:48:05PM +, Russell King wrote: > Peter Horton writes: > > The corruption is dependent on having a swapped on swap partition. If I > > "swapoff" the corruption goes away, but it comes back when I "swapon" > > again. I feel this a kernel bug, but as I'm the only person

Re: 2.4.1-pre8 losing pages

2001-01-26 Thread Russell King
Peter Horton writes: > The corruption is dependent on having a swapped on swap partition. If I > "swapoff" the corruption goes away, but it comes back when I "swapon" > again. I feel this a kernel bug, but as I'm the only person out here who's > seeing it I'm at a loss ... What compiler are you u

Re: 2.4.1-pre8 losing pages

2001-01-26 Thread Peter Horton
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 09:24:12AM +, Peter Horton wrote: > On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 03:20:33AM +0100, Xuan Baldauf wrote: > > > > Peter Horton wrote: > > > > > I'm experiencing repeatable corruption whilst writing large volumes of > > > data to disk. Kernel version is 2.4.1-pre8, on an 850MH

Re: 2.4.1-pre8 losing pages

2001-01-26 Thread Peter Horton
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 03:20:33AM +0100, Xuan Baldauf wrote: > > Peter Horton wrote: > > > I'm experiencing repeatable corruption whilst writing large volumes of > > data to disk. Kernel version is 2.4.1-pre8, on an 850MHz AMD Athlon on an > > ASUS A7V (VIA KT133 chipset) motherboard 128M RAM (

Re: 2.4.1-pre8 losing pages

2001-01-25 Thread Xuan Baldauf
Peter Horton wrote: > I'm experiencing repeatable corruption whilst writing large volumes of > data to disk. Kernel version is 2.4.1-pre8, on an 850MHz AMD Athlon on an > ASUS A7V (VIA KT133 chipset) motherboard 128M RAM (tested with 'memtest86' > for 10 hours). > > First, I realised that the f

2.4.1-pre8 losing pages

2001-01-25 Thread Peter Horton
I'm experiencing repeatable corruption whilst writing large volumes of data to disk. Kernel version is 2.4.1-pre8, on an 850MHz AMD Athlon on an ASUS A7V (VIA KT133 chipset) motherboard 128M RAM (tested with 'memtest86' for 10 hours). First, I realised that the fsck was noticing small corruptions