I have three different machines that have been having problems with the
last two FC4 kernels. The first is a 733 MHz Pentium III with 256 MB RAM
and a 230 GB IDE disk. It acts an Apache web server and a subversion
server. The machine gets into a mode where it prints the following on
the console (the numbers may be a little different):
Normal per-cpu:
cpu 0 hot: low 62, high 186, batch 31, used 99
cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 62, batch 31, used 57
HighMem per-cpu: empty
Free pages: 2972kB (0kB HighMem)
Active:0 inactive:0 dirty:0 writeback:0 stable:0 free:743 slab:16038
mapped:22857 pagetables:22109
DMA: free:1080kB min:124kB low:152kB high:184kB active:120kB
inactive:264kB present:16384kB pages_scanned:1840433 all_unreclaimable?
yes
lowmem_reserve[]: 0 239 239
Normal free:1892kB min:1916kB low:2392kB high:2872kB active:13492kB
inactive:13320kB present:245680kB pages_scanned:787375
all_unreclaimable? yes
lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0
HighMem free:0kB min:128kB low:160kB high:192kB active:0kB inactive:0kB
present:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0
DMA: 0*4kB 1*8kB 1*16kB 1*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 1*1024KB
0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 1080kB
Normal: 1*4kB 0*8kB 2*16kB 2*32kB 0*64kB 4*128kB 1*256kB 0*512kB
1*1024KB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 1892kB
HighMem: empty
Swap cache: add 222217, delete 221977, find 1020061/1033074, race 0+2
Free swap = 0kB
Total swap = 524280kB
Notice the machine is out of swap space so there seems to be a process
that is running amuck, but I can't tell what it is. I have to shut the
machine off to make progress. This also occurred with 1831.
The second is a 733 MHz AMD Duron with 256 MB RAM. It experiences the
same thing with 1658.
The third machine is a dual Tyan Dual Opteron machine. It experienced
the problem with a 1831 when trying to compile a large code.
Has anyone experienced similar problems?
Can someone suggest what to try to debug the problem, or another place
to get help.
TIA,
Pete
