Lonnie ....

[David Bandel]

On 9/26/06, Ben Duncan <bns at meta3.net> wrote:
> Very random occurrence from ever few hours to days go by without
> any problems. Seem to be related to that CRAPPY SIL 3112 SATA add
> on controller 'cause it starts happening  after I have hammered
> on the WD SATA drive, and since this one machine is my demo/test
> machine, does not get used that much - except for burning ISO's.
>
> Back tracking thru the EIP, I see that the error is occurring inside
> of the lib/radix routines, which is called by PDFLUSH.
>
> The few LUCKY times I have had TOP running and it locked up (hard, BTW,
> have to pull plug to reboot), showed PDFLSUH consuming all resources,
> (100% CPU usage and 100% memory) kinda like teenage kids do - or a
> high maintenance wife ...

Actually, I seem to remember a recent Changelog to a recent 2.6.18.x
kernel that talked about pdflush problems -- though I believe (don't
remember exactly) that it was related to SMP machines.  Could be wrong
though.

>
> Me thinks the LKML maintainer does not want to look to hard at this one

big surprise here...

..
>
> Net Llama! wrote:
> > On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, Ben Duncan wrote:
> >
> >>Sent in  a EIP report to the kernel dev group.
> >>They said send it on to nVidia ...
[snip]

David A. Bandel
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