Re: [BUG] in 2.4.17 after 10 days uptime

[Ed Tomlinson]

On January 7, 2002 09:24 pm, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 04:28:12PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > Is my thinking correct ?
>
> Yes, that's the case I was thinking of.  sendfile() and tux are potential
> triggers of this.
>
> > If so, I don't see why Ed's trace BUGs at rmqueue first: It should bug at
> > __free_pages_ok() PageLRU check.
>
> Hmm, as we've discussed on irc, there are some other nasty implications of
> the __free_pages code interacting with shrink_cache without this patch. 
> I'm not certain that explains it, but it could.  Ed, have you seen this
> oops again?  What kind of load is the machine under?

After applyng your patch I ran for another couple of day on 18pre1 without
seeing any problems.  The system is fairly lightly loaded running a caching
news server, java apps and acts as a masq gateway/squid cache for the rest 
of the boxes here (home network).  It also the box I use...

Ed