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.
The reference to 1658 should have been 1656.
To be specific 2.6.14-1.1656_FC4 and 2.6.15-1.1831_FC4. The x86_64 SMP
version was loaded on the dual opteron machine. The i686 version was
used on the other machines.
Sorry,
Pete
