Re: Kernel-Panic : freeing cache, WAS K6-3 / E+gnome
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On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Ingo Reimann wrote:
> Kernel panic: Freeing swap cache page
>
> kern.log says:
>
> Oct 29 11:03:01 convert kernel: VM: read_swap_page: page already in page
> cache!
> Oct 29 11:03:01 convert kernel: Kernel panic: Freeing swap cache page
>
> What does this mean? What can i do?
Well, the kernel hackers will probably tell me that this is insane and
that it could never possibly make a difference, but I swear it worked for
me before when I had similar problems! Destroy and re-create your swap
partitions. Remember to run swapoff on them before you delete them.
Maybe you don't actually need to delete the partitions; mkswap might be
enough. But anyway, re-create the swap partition and run swapon...see
what happens.
I can't imagine why it would work. I don't think it should. But a couple
years ago I ran into major stability problems and got similar messages to
when you found in kern.log. Re-creating the swap partition fixed
everything. I have no idea what inspired me to try that, but...
HTH,
noah
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