I fixed this problem by upgrading the BIOS Flash to v1.24 from v1.18
Thanks for your help.
Peter McNeil wrote:
G'day all,
Since the introduction of the 2.6.24 kernels in fedora I have had a
problem where I get a Kernel Oops if I exceed physical memory. I have
checked swap is on and OK etc. It works fine with 2.6.23.15-137.fc8. I
have just tried the latest fedora kernel and the problem persists.
I'm at the point where I'm considering a re-install (aghast that
sounds so MS) to see if that fixes the problem... but if this is a
kernel problem I'd like to help get it fixed. Who should I contact to
try and help fix this issue?
Cheers,
Peter.
---- Background Info ----
I have an acer 5620 core 2 duo running the x86_64 version of fedora 8
with 2GB Ram and 2GB swap. It works fine with kernel
2.6.23.15-137.fc8, but when I try any of the 2.6.24.xx-xx.fc8 kernels
the machine crashes when pyhsical ram fills up. Swap is not used.
* I have checked swap space with badblocks, and all reports fine
* I have tried adding a swap file and using that, but it still crashes
* Swap is on
...$ cat /proc/swaps
Filename Type Size
Used Priority
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol01 partition 2031608
0 -1
...$ cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
60
at the point it crashes top (via ssh) looks like this:-
top - 14:13:36 up 29 min, 4 users, load average: 1.32, 0.56, 0.38
Tasks: 162 total, 1 running, 161 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 18.2%us, 6.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 43.0%id, 32.1%wa, 0.0%hi,
0.7%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 2061304k total, 2042936k used, 18368k free, 44764k buffers
Swap: 2031608k total, 0k used, 2031608k free, 679356k cached
if I run stress or memhog from the command line I do get a stack dump
I have only been able to capture a bit of that by copying it by hand:-
(transcribed by hand)
---- quote ----
Kernel Oops
CR2 ffffffff00000001
BUG sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/rwsem.c:21
in_atomic():0, irqs_disabled():1
Pid 3920, comm: stress Tainted: P D 2.6.24.3-50.fc8 #1
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff81268b17>] down_read +0x15/0x23
[<ffffffff8105e091>] acct_collect +0x42/0x18e
[<ffffffff8103a632>] do_exit + 0x217/0x76b
[<ffffffff8126b666>] do_page_fault +0x5c3/0x691
...
--- end quote ---
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