Re: VM: Found a writable swap-cached page!

Magnus Sjoegren (dat98msj@student3.lu.se)
Tue, 28 Jul 1998 21:34:48 +0200 (MET DST)


Article: <199807281612.RAA03558@dax.dcs.ed.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 17:12:36 +0100
Author: Stephen C. Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>

> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 27 Jul 1998 19:26:19 +0200 (MET DST), Magnus Sjoegren
> <dat98msj@student3.lu.se> said:
>
> > 1: Start X and netscape.
> > 2: Switch to console and start any svgalib app, lets say zgv.
> > View a nice picture.
> > 3: Switch back to netscape and view a webpage. Move around
> > the page as usual. Wait for syslog to fill.
>
> > That's all it takes on my machine (486 DX/2 66, 16MB).
> > I first saw this while playing with some svgalib code, and I think any
> > svgalib app will do. Tested with squake, zgv and the examples that
> > come with svgalib.
>
> Works just fine for me, using zgv on a 16MB 486-DX100. Are you using
> the new kernel framebuffer, or is this using the traditional console
> stuff?
>

I am using CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE with CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT.

I managed to force these VM messages without X+netscape running
only squake and updatedb just now.

I also tried to reproduce it with dosemu as Anders Melchiorsen
suggested but without any luck.

__
Magnus Sjögren <dat98msj@student3.lu.se>

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