Bug 80626
Summary: | Using swapfile on ext3 causes crash | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Bart Ogryczak <z-rhbug> |
Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Arjan van de Ven <arjanv> |
Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | high | ||
Version: | 7.3 | ||
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Hardware: | athlon | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2004-09-30 15:40:20 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
Bart Ogryczak
2002-12-28 23:41:14 UTC
Are you booting with data=journal per chance? How is the swapfile being created? Swapfiles must not be sparse files. Also, providing the kernel messages for any crashes would be helpful. I'm booting without any additional flags for ext3. The boot command in grub.conf is as follows: title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-19.7.x) root (hd0,1) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-19.7.x ro root=/dev/hda5 hda=autotune hdd=ide-scsi Filesystems are: /dev/hda2 /boot ext3 /dev/hda5 / ext3 Swapfile was created on / partition (made /swap/ directory for it, if that's relevant). By the book - dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1024 count=262144 And one more thing. No doubt about it, after getting rid of that swapfile my system is way more stable. Thanks for the bug report. However, Red Hat no longer maintains this version of the product. Please upgrade to the latest version and open a new bug if the problem persists. The Fedora Legacy project (http://fedoralegacy.org/) maintains some older releases, and if you believe this bug is interesting to them, please report the problem in the bug tracker at: http://bugzilla.fedora.us/ |