Re: 2.1.120pre1: VM: Found a writeable swap-cached page

Bill Hawes (whawes@transmeta.com)
Mon, 31 Aug 1998 07:40:25 -0700


Brian Almeida wrote:

> These started popping up today (not just oen or two, many, in bursts):
>
> Aug 30 22:01:40 terminus kernel: VM: Found a writable swap-cached page!
> Aug 30 22:01:40 terminus kernel: page=c0352760@00160700, found=c0352760,
> count=3
>
> Harmless, or a bug?

Were you using xdos or dosemu at the time? The messages do indicate a
problem, and the cause is known, but fixing it in the kernel will break
dosemu.

Regards,
Bill

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