Re: out of memory = stuck on TLB IPI wait

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl)
Mon, 05 Apr 1999 02:02:44 -0400

George <greerga@nidhogg.ham.muohio.edu> said:
> machine with Tyan Tomcat IV board invariably gives me the message:
>
> stuck on TLB IPI wait (CPU #[0|1])
>
> The machine never recovers afterward and Magic SysRq does not work. It's
> reset button time. The time it happens varies from 50 megabytes into swap
> to 1 megabyte into swap.

For what it might be worth, here (i586 UP, egcs-1.1.2, binutils-2.9.1.0.22b
for 2.2.5) I just compiled lynx a few times until I'd got the configuration
right (the compilation of one particular file is an enormous memory hog, it
went some 45Mb into swap over 32Mb RAM) while playing spider(1) under X.
The system was quite responsive. No troubles at all.

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Horst von Brand                             vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl
Casilla 9G, Viņa del Mar, Chile                               +56 32 672616




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