Swap problem, advice appreciated

B. James Phillippe (bryan@Terran.ORG)
Fri, 12 Dec 1997 22:29:40 -0800 (PST)


Hello,

Thank you much for reading this message, especially since it
pertains to an older kernel. As of today, I've been seeing some nasty
looking log entries on a busy server, and it hasn't been stable (processes
dieing or failing to operate correctly, particularly NFS-related things
[amd]). There have been no previous problems throughout it's history of
operation. I am not seeing any IDE drive errors in the logs, so I think
the disk is okay. Just to be safe, I did a swapoff and remade the swap
partition with bad block checking, however, this did not fix the problem.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Dec 12 02:08:00 mox kernel: swap_duplicate: trying to duplicate unused page
Dec 12 02:08:00 mox last message repeated 19 times
Dec 12 02:08:00 mox kernel: Hmm.. Trying to use unallocated swap (00002300)
Dec 12 02:08:00 mox kernel: swap_duplicate: trying to duplicate unused page
Dec 12 02:08:00 mox last message repeated 4 times
Dec 12 02:08:00 mox kernel: Hmm.. Trying to use unallocated swap (00002300)
Dec 12 02:08:00 mox kernel: Hmm.. Trying to use unallocated swap (00000800)
Dec 12 02:08:00 mox kernel: swap_free: swap-space map bad (entry 00004700)
Dec 12 02:08:00 mox kernel: swap_free: swap-space map bad (entry 00000700)
Dec 12 02:08:00 mox kernel: swap_free: swap-space map bad (entry 00000800)
Dec 12 02:08:00 mox kernel: swap_free: swap-space map bad (entry 00002200)
Dec 12 02:08:00 mox kernel: swap_free: swap-space map bad (entry 00002300)
Dec 12 02:08:00 mox kernel: swap_free: swap-space map bad (entry 00002500)
Dec 12 02:08:00 mox kernel: swap_free: swap-space map bad (entry 00004700)

thanks,
-bp

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