On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 09:26:43AM +1100, Johny Mattsson wrote: > On 11/16/05 07:49, Lars Kristiansen wrote: > >I had an infinite while loop running during the > >kernel compilation, printing out 'swapinfo' every > >15 seconds. The last output before the machine goes > >dead is this: > > > >/dev/ad0s1b 39848 11820 39848 30% > >/dev/md0 131072 5908 131072 5% > >Total 170920 17728 153192 10% > > Quite possibly not related, but on 5.4 I can reliably cause a panic by > attaching md0 to a file residing on an NFS drive and then use it for > swap. After 3-5k of used swap on md0, the box dies and reboots. If I run > "swapon" directly on the NFS file, things work fine, but it did mean > that I couldn't use the default "addswap" rc script to set up the swap > on my diskless system. > I'm not sure whether it's supposed to work or not, but I haven't had > time to look into it yet. Just thought it might be another datapoint for > someone in the know to consider, just in case it is related.
It's a situation few people have probably tried. If it persists on 6.0, please go through the same reporting procedure (debugging traceback, file PR). Kris
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