Re: freeze with 2.4.5-ac16

2001-06-20 Thread Justin Guyett
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Justin Guyett wrote: > the offending process is memeat (allocates 192*1024*1024 bytes, then > memsets it to 0, then sleeps forever, though apparently it never gets to > that part). It has to be in memset(ptr, 0, 192*1024*1024). > ksymoops from sysrq-m attached, hmm, well h

Re: freeze with 2.4.5-ac16

2001-06-20 Thread Justin Guyett
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > happened again (vt1 and 2 echo but shells are unresponsive, vt3+ don't > > echo) only active process was the program allocating 192mb and writing to > > it, no find this time. > > Can you get the backtrace of this process? the offending process is

Re: freeze with 2.4.5-ac16

2001-06-20 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Justin Guyett wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Justin Guyett wrote: > > > I got it to freeze in console (two generic find / -type f / type d), one > > process allocating and writing 0 to 192mb > > > > machine responds to pings, switching VTs works > > > > (256 physical, 512 s

Re: freeze with 2.4.5-ac16

2001-06-20 Thread Justin Guyett
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Justin Guyett wrote: > I got it to freeze in console (two generic find / -type f / type d), one > process allocating and writing 0 to 192mb > > machine responds to pings, switching VTs works > > (256 physical, 512 swap) happened again (vt1 and 2 echo but shells are unrespons

freeze with 2.4.5-ac16

2001-06-20 Thread Justin Guyett
I got it to freeze in console (two generic find / -type f / type d), one process allocating and writing 0 to 192mb machine responds to pings, switching VTs works (256 physical, 512 swap) Mem-info Free pages: 1524kB (0kB High) ( Active: 39586, inactive_dirty: 18590, inactive_clean: 0, free: 381