Re: [lc-devel] 2.4.18 + comp-cache-2.4.18-0.22pre6"

[Rodrigo S. de C. <rc...@im...>]

Hi Marc,

On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 11:30:02AM +0100, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:
> Kernel "2.4.18" with patch "patch-comp-cache-2.4.18-0.22pre6"

The 0.22pre6 is very very unstable and should be used carefully. The
next version (0.22pre7) fixed many memory corruption bugs in the page
cache compression support which may be the cause of this oops. I will
release a patch today and could you give it a go to see if the bug is
still there? I really wouldn't like to have this bug in the 0.22 final
version I intend to release these next days.

> I used pre6 cause pre7 does not compile.

Fix already in my pool.

> The System is still up now, the oops is some minutes ago, but last night, from
> 4am to 6am every 10-15 minutes the oops occurs with ending in a kernel panic at
> 6am.

That happens all the time with bugs like that. It oopses and stops
only the current code path, but the kernel keeps running. Since it
seems a general memory corruption, the other code paths will
eventually oops too, ending up in a code with a panic, which stops all
the kernel :-)

> Bug? Feature? ;)

Surely a bug :-) Thank you for the report.

Best Regards,
-- 
Rodrigo S. de Castro <rc...@im...>