Swap Corruption in 2.4.3 ?
Quoted 3 lines · Richard Russon
VM: Undead swap entry
000bb300
VM: Undead swap entry00abb300
VM: Undead swap entry016fb300
I have seen similar mysterious crashes of X server when I began accessing large web page using Netscape navigator. It was reproducible the first few times I noticed.
Today, a similar problem occurred and luckily I noticed console messages printed on a virtual console. There ware many lines like the following.
swap_free: Trying to freee non-existent swap page
Bad Swap Entry: 00000008
Bad Swap Entry: 0000008
...
VM: Kiling process jserverSwap_free: Trying to free non-existent swap page
...
It seems that there was some sort of kernel data corruption. (In my case, the kernel could not find the swap page and failed to swap out memory and thus the
VM's selective process killer was invoked to free up memory?)
Then eventually I got
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer defreence at ...
message and the system crashed.
(I was also typing Alt+SysReq+keystroke to see if I could sync disk.) .
Anyway, this probem seems to be in 2.4.2, too from what I recall about the
first mysterious X server crash.
Quoted 3 lines · On Apri 20 Rik van Riel wrote:
Known bug ... unknown cause ;(
http://www.linux-mm.org/bugzilla.shtml has it already listed
The symptom there didn't match mine, but I do suspect
a (new) problem in VM of 2.4.3 (2.4.2, too. 2.4.1, I am not sure.).
Happy Hacking