Re: 2.1.55 strange lockup revisited

Bill Hawes (whawes@star.net)
Mon, 22 Sep 1997 10:52:25 -0400


Marko Siladin wrote:
> I reported a strange lockup on this list last week. But I did
> not lookup the Scroll-Lock info. So it happend again today and here
> is the info:

> EIP: 0010:[<c011b6e1>] EFlafs:00000246
> EAX:00000000 EBX: C01fe294 ECX: 00000000 EDX: 00000000
> ESI:000005dd EDI: 00000cbe EBP: 00001800 DS:0018 ES: 0018

The alt-Scrollock info can be very helpful, but you need to look up the
address in the System.map file for the kernel you're using. (Everyone's
System.map is different.) Just go through the file and find the name of
the system routine where the address in [<..>] falls.

My guess would be that you're looping in kswapd because of low memory.
I posted a patch for this against 2.1.53 a few weeks ago, and it applies
cleanly against current kernels. Let me know if you need a copy.

Also, 2.1.56 has improved memory management, so upgrading the kernel
would probably help.

Regards,
Bill