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oopsen in 2.4.0-pre9

DISCUSSION John R Lenton 2 participants 3 messages Oct 31, 2000

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Several oops come up when using a lot of memory (using imagemagick on PIA00001.tif from photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/tiff, on a 64MB machine, for example)

The weird thing is the oops happen *after* I've finished with imagemagick (or the gimp, or ...). In this particular situation netscape suddenly died, together with wmtime, and then the whole of X hung. I entered via the network, to find that xfs had died (explaining X's hanging), and as soon as I restarted X the whole box was gone. It still responded to pings, but even the active ssh session was dead and I couldn't get a new one.

Please email me if you need anything else (other than the attached ksymoops output, that is).

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Quoted 11 lines · John R Lenton

Several oops come up when using a lot of memory (using imagemagick on PIA00001.tif from photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/tiff, on a 64MB machine, for example)

The weird thing is the oops happen *after* I've finished with imagemagick (or the gimp, or ...). In this particular situation netscape suddenly died, together with wmtime, and then the whole of X hung. I entered via the network, to find that xfs had died (explaining X's hanging), and as soon as I restarted X the whole box was gone. It still responded to pings, but even the active ssh session was dead and I couldn't get a new one.

I can only confirm your problem, but I use 128MB RAM.

When using "display PIA00001.tif" my computer starts swapping furiously and then locks *hard*. Not even sysrq works and unfortunately in my case no oops in messages...

Hmmmm, serious? Dunno...

/Richard
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Quoted 12 lines · John R Lenton

Several oops come up when using a lot of memory (using imagemagick on PIA00001.tif from photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/tiff, on a 64MB machine, for example)

The weird thing is the oops happen *after* I've finished with imagemagick (or the gimp, or ...). In this particular situation netscape suddenly died, together with wmtime, and then the whole of X hung. I entered via the network, to find that xfs had died (explaining X's hanging), and as soon as I restarted X the whole box was gone. It still responded to pings, but even the active ssh session was dead and I couldn't get a new one.

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Please email me if you need anything else (other than the attached ksymoops output, that is).

Well some more info.

I see kswapd starting to run @ ~7% CPU.

But my swap starts getting eaten up with approx 5 MB/sec.

Any ideas anyone?

RvR something for you?

/Richard
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