On my 2.4.5-ac7 SMP regularly I get something like this. Always on kswapd
(pid 3) process.
oceanic:~$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1028488 1024392 4096 52 181064 668876
-/+ buffers/cache: 174452 854036
Swap: 527016 38368 488648
If it was fixed on ac9 - sorry.
ksymoops 2.4.0 on i686 2.4.5-ac7. Options used
-V (default)
-k /proc/ksyms (default)
-l /proc/modules (default)
-o /lib/modules/2.4.5-ac7/ (default)
-m /lib/modules/2.4.5-ac7/System.map (specified)
Jun 6 14:45:02 oceanic kernel: invalid operand: 0000
Jun 6 14:45:02 oceanic kernel: CPU: 1
Jun 6 14:45:02 oceanic kernel: EIP: 0010:[<c01496c2>]
Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386
Jun 6 14:45:02 oceanic kernel: EFLAGS: 00010206
Jun 6 14:45:02 oceanic kernel: eax: 000003a5 ebx: ea182220 ecx: d7fbf608 edx: c29d89c8
Jun 6 14:45:02 oceanic kernel: esi: ea182220 edi: ea182220 ebp: 00000596 esp: c2129f3c
Jun 6 14:45:02 oceanic kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Jun 6 14:45:02 oceanic kernel: Process kswapd (pid: 3, stackpage=c2129000)
Jun 6 14:45:02 oceanic kernel: Stack: eaff17c0 d487b240 c014787c ea182220 ea182220 c02a28a0 c014a1d4 ea182220
Jun 6 14:45:02 oceanic kernel: d1091de0 d1091dc0 c0147c49 ea182220 ea182220 00000000 00000001 c13b1080
Jun 6 14:45:02 oceanic kernel: 00000000 00000007 c012d326 00000001 00000004 00000004 000002ff 00000000
Jun 6 14:45:02 oceanic kernel: Call Trace: [<c014787c>] [<c014a1d4>]
[<c0147c49>] [<c012d326>] [<c0147fd1>]
Jun 6 14:45:02 oceanic kernel: [<c012d6e7>] [<c012d78b>] [<c0105000>]
[<c0105000>] [<c0105536>] [<c012d720>]
Jun 6 14:45:02 oceanic kernel: Code: 0f 0b 8b 86 f8 00 00 00 a9 10 00 00 00 75 02 0f 0b a9 20 00
>>EIP; c01496c2 <clear_inode+22/110> <=====
Trace; c014787c <dput+1c/150>
Trace; c014a1d4 <iput+144/150>
Trace; c0147c49 <prune_dcache+c9/160>
Trace; c012d326 <page_launder+676/6c0>
Trace; c0147fd1 <shrink_dcache_memory+21/40>
Trace; c012d6e7 <do_try_to_free_pages+27/60>
Trace; c012d78b <kswapd+6b/f0>
Trace; c0105000 <prepare_namespace+0/10>
Trace; c0105000 <prepare_namespace+0/10>
Trace; c0105536 <kernel_thread+26/30>
Trace; c012d720 <kswapd+0/f0>
Code; c01496c2 <clear_inode+22/110>
00000000 <_EIP>:
Code; c01496c2 <clear_inode+22/110> <=====
0: 0f 0b ud2a <=====
Code; c01496c4 <clear_inode+24/110>
2: 8b 86 f8 00 00 00 mov 0xf8(%esi),%eax
Code; c01496ca <clear_inode+2a/110>
8: a9 10 00 00 00 test $0x10,%eax
Code; c01496cf <clear_inode+2f/110>
d: 75 02 jne 11 <_EIP+0x11> c01496d3 <clear_inode+33/110>
Code; c01496d1 <clear_inode+31/110>
f: 0f 0b ud2a
Code; c01496d3 <clear_inode+33/110>
11: a9 20 00 00 00 test $0x20,%eax
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