2.0.27 (almost) crashed and burned

Mikael Abrahamsson (mike@uplift.sparta.lu.se)
Fri, 6 Dec 1996 01:17:26 +0100 (MET)


Dec 6 00:25:09 uplift kernel: swap_duplicate: trying to duplicate unused
page
Dec 6 00:25:09 uplift last message repeated 25 times
Dec 6 00:25:09 uplift last message repeated 82 times
Dec 6 00:25:09 uplift last message repeated 90 times
Dec 6 00:25:14 uplift kernel: swap_free: swap-space map bad (entry
00016100)
Dec 6 00:25:14 uplift kernel: swap_free: swap-space map bad (entry
00016200)
Dec 6 00:25:14 uplift kernel: swap_free: swap-space map bad (entry
00002800)
Dec 6 00:25:14 uplift kernel: swap_free: swap-space map bad (entry
00002900)
Dec 6 00:25:14 uplift kernel: swap_free: swap-space map bad (entry
00016100)
Dec 6 00:25:14 uplift kernel: swap_free: swap-space map bad (entry
00016200)
Dec 6 00:25:14 uplift kernel: swap_free: swap-space map bad (entry
00002800)
Dec 6 00:25:14 uplift kernel: swap_free: swap-space map bad (entry
00002900)
Dec 6 00:25:14 uplift kernel: swap_free: swap-space map bad (entry
00016100)
Dec 6 00:25:14 uplift kernel: swap_free: swap-space map bad (entry
00016200)
Dec 6 00:25:14 uplift kernel: swap_free: swap-space map bad (entry
00002800)
Dec 6 00:25:14 uplift kernel: swap_free: swap-space map bad (entry
00002900)

and so on, til:

Dec 6 00:30:15 uplift kernel: swap_free: swap-space map bad (entry
00002900)
Dec 6 00:30:15 uplift kernel: swap_free: swap-space map bad (entry
00016100)
Dec 6 00:30:15 uplift kernel: swap_free: swap-space map bad (entry
00016200)

Then I reset the machine. During these problems it complained about
process table full, a few minutes later it spawned 250 crond:s, complained
about not being able to load ld.so.cache.

My system has been rock solid the past months with frequent updates of the
kernel. This is my first problem like this.

I am running a perverted slackware 2.2, gcc 2.7.0 and the libc and so on
that came with that distribution (5.0.9).