Re: Strange lines in dmesg

[Shawn Starr]

Na, thats ok, that's just a dumping of debug info :)

Not to worry.

On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Denis Perchine wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I got the following lines in dmesg:
>
>                          free                        sibling
>   task             PC    stack   pid father child younger older
> init      S C144DF28  4912     1      0   840  (NOTLB)
> Call Trace: [<c01111ab>] [<c01110f0>] [<c01398e5>] [<c0139c8e>] [<c01330c4>]
> [<c0106dd7>]
> keventd   S FFFFFFFF  6020     2      1        (L-TLB)       3
> Call Trace: [<c011d9db>] [<c01054f4>]
> kswapd    S C1455FAC  5812     3      1        (L-TLB)       4     2
> Call Trace: [<c01111ab>] [<c01110f0>] [<c01116ea>] [<c0127499>] [<c01054f4>]
> kreclaimd  S 00000286  6316     4      1        (L-TLB)       5     3
> Call Trace: [<c0111695>] [<c012754b>] [<c01054f4>]
> bdflush   S C1450000  5972     5      1        (L-TLB)       6     4
> Call Trace: [<c012f97e>] [<c01054f4>]
> kupdated  S C147FFC8  6296     6      1        (L-TLB)     197     5
>
> And more for other processes.
>
> As far as I can understand lines containing 'Call Trace' are printed in
> trap.c in show_trace function. Does anyone know what this thing can mean, and
> how to found a real reason?
>
> Problem is that on this machine I have install 2.3.2-ac26 + Morton's patch to
> allow very large processes not be killed when there are not reused pages in
> swap, etc.
>
> My sci advisor have real problem as his process beying killed when reached
> 960Mb. There is 256Mb of RAM in machine, and 1.5Gb of swap... It looks like
> it is again a problem with kernel does not use all possibilities before kill
> a process.
>
> And what worries me is that I found mentioned above lines in kernel log.
>
> --
> Sincerely Yours,
> Denis Perchine
>
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