On Thursday 09 February 2006 14:15, Peter J. Stieber wrote: > 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 At this point I would try init 3 and then init 1 and kill all daemons not critical to operation with chkconfig. -- Some people have convictions. Some people have opinions I think I'll have a cheeseburger!
