On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Kevin Franden wrote:
>
> Hardware
> ========
[...]
> AMD K6-2 500 MHz chip
Have you recompiled your kernel in any way? I've heard that the K6 had problems
with more than 64M RAM...
> kernel 2.2.17-9mdk kernel source
>
>
>
> Memory: 128212/131027 available.
Uh, you sure you haven't forgotten the "k" after the figures? If no, then it
means that the kernel find 128 *kilobytes* RAM...
> (772k kernel code, 416k reserved, 16280k data, 52k init, 0k bigmem)
>
> > NOTE: the used memory works out to be 17520k so there ought to be
> only 113507k left! <
>
> General Protection Fault: 000
> CPU: 0
> EIP: 0010:[<c0121863>]
> EFLAGS: 00010286
>
> eax: 0000009f ebx: c7fff0d8 ecx: c017d20 edx: c01d7d20
> esi: 00000020 edi: ffffffff ebp: c7ffffe0 esp: c01e7ed8
> ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
> process swapper (pid: 0, process nr: 0, stackpage=c01e7000)
>
> stack: 00000000 00000282 00000000 00000000 00000019 c01d7d28
> 00000212 00000001
> 00000020 00000000 c01e7f4c c01d21ac 0a100000 c0121a00
> c01d7d20 00000015
> c01f8083 00000282 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000e00
> c8000000 c8000000
> Call Trace: [<c0121a00>] [<c0120eb9>] [<c01a6880>] [<c01060000>]
> [<e01a82fe>] [<c0106000>] [<c0106000>]
> [<c0106000>] [c0100175>]
>
> Code: 89 07 8b 3f 83 ee 01 73 ca c7 00 00 00 00 fa c7
> 45 08 2b
>
> Kernel Panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!
> In swapper task - not syncing
>
Yay! Now that's a panic!
OK, as you have kept all register informations, can you look at the closest
downwards address of eip in System.map and see what function it barfs in?
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