2.6.24.x kernel crash when swap used

[Jonathan Underwood]

On 03/04/2008, Peter McNeil <peter at mcneils.net> wrote:
> Jonathan Underwood wrote:
>
> > On 02/04/2008, Peter McNeil <peter at mcneils.net> wrote:
> > [snip]
> >
> >
> > >  Any Ideas what might be happening? Surely it can't just be my
> machine???
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Well, if you give a little more detail about the test you're running I
> > can try and reproduce it on similar hardware - what's "stress" ?
> >
> > J.
> >
> >
> >
>  Stress is a stress testing program, however *anything* that fills up
> physical memory and needs swap causes the problem for me (I'm a java
> developer so my IDE and a few other programs can do that).
>
>  You may have memhog installed, if you have say 2GB memory then try memhog
> 2g and it will begin filling up memory, that should do it.

Am currently sat at a x86_64 pentium D machine with 1GB ram. I did
memhog 1g, which didn't trigger the bug you see. I also did stress
--vm 32, which clobbered the machine while I went for coffee, but also
didn't trigger the bug. This is with kernel  2.6.24.4-64.fc8. Tomorrow
I can try on a pentium core 2 duo machine with 2G ram.