Richard
On 5 Jul 1997, Michael Harnois wrote:
> Date: 05 Jul 1997 12:58:36 -0500
> From: Michael Harnois <mharnois@sbt.net>
> To: "Richard A. Soderberg" <richards@dnsi.net>
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: Re: All these memory problems..
>
> On Tue, 1 Jul 1997 12:57:21 -0700 (PDT), "Richard A. Soderberg" <richards@dnsi.net> said:
>
> > I might as well ask - are these memory problems supposed to be in
> > 2.1.42? I've been badblocking disks and running make -kj 16 a
> > kernel at the same time, and I've not quite seen what problems
> > everyone has been talking about. I have a buffer patch, and the one
> > line page_aging patch, but even before that, I never noticed any
> > problems. mem=40M, I'll go try it with mem=4M eventually..
>
> This seems to be a very complex problem. Some people apparently can
> run the latest development kernels without incident, and some can't. I
> can't. Every time I turn around I have memory problems. But they're
> not consistent. Sometimes I can run 2.1.43 or 44-pre3 for two or three
> hours without a crash. But yesterday, every time I got to the end of
> the boot sequence, the kernel would oops and the machine would either
> hang with the screen flashing many colors or reboot. Finally I did get
> one line of intelligible message: "Unable to handle kernel paging
> request at virtual address 18c00970." I looked over every program that
> executes during boot, made sure it was the correct version and intact,
> and nothing helped. Finally, in desperation, last night I compiled a
> 2.0.30-pre2 with several patches on another machine and copied it over
> here. The machine's run all night without incident and into this
> morning.
>
> I really have no idea where else to look for a solution to the
> problem.
>
> --
> Michael D. Harnois, Redeemer Lutheran Church, Washburn, IA
> mharnois@sbt.net aa0bt@aa0bt.ampr.org
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