Re: Kernel-Panic : freeing cache, WAS K6-3 / E+gnome
On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 09:03:55AM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
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> On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Ingo Reimann wrote:
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> > 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
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> > What does this mean? What can i do?
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> 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
>
Thanks for you help, noah! I just did it and as you can see. NOW the system
works. How long? We will see! Hope, this was the problem.
I also decreased the core voltage for the CPU to 2.2V. Together it should
help. *sigh*
Ingo
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