Hi folks,
Probably not the good forum, but couldn't find anything on kernel.org (I mean some kind of forum), so tought I give it a try here. If anyone knows a better please, plz post.
Ok, first system specifications (it's a server, and .. ehm... a bit old):
Texas Instruments 486DLC 40Mhz CPU (no math-co proc)
16 MB Ram
ca. 190 MB Swap (yes I'm overdoing it a bit)
2 ne2000 isa ethernet cards (at io 0x0220 and 0x0300 if it has anything to do with it)
own build kernel 2.6.17
Ok, now my problem:
Sometimes the system suddenly locks-up, but not for the full 100 %. I can give a username and a passwd at login, but after entering the passwd I get an login timeout (60 secs I believe).
Then doing a ping from the internal network to internet works (where the server acts like NAT), pinging to the server itself also works, but anything bigger than a ping doesn't work (telnet, http, ssh, dns, etc). When I try to use an internet dns server where my server again only works for the NAT also times-out. The only thing I can do is a full-reset. This is a bit problematic, since it is also my mail-server.
I started searching in my logs and found the following:
Code:
Oct 29 14:12:39 server kernel: kswapd0: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20
Oct 29 14:12:39 server kernel: <c0125a03> __alloc_pages+0x255/0x269 <c0135910> cache_alloc_refill+0x223/0x3c4
Oct 29 14:12:39 server kernel: <c0135b10> __kmalloc+0x5f/0x69 <c0211834> __alloc_skb+0x51/0xfa
Oct 29 14:12:39 server kernel: <c181d447> ei_receive+0x174/0x29d [8390] <c181dbba> ei_interrupt+0x145/0x24f [8390]
Oct 29 14:12:39 server kernel: <c0120b82> handle_IRQ_event+0x23/0x4c <c0120c00> __do_IRQ+0x55/0x91
Oct 29 14:12:39 server kernel: <c0103a64> do_IRQ+0x19/0x24 <c010271a> common_interrupt+0x1a/0x20
Oct 29 14:12:39 server kernel: <c013540e> kmem_cache_free+0x9/0x2b <c181da64> ei_start_xmit+0x1bc/0x1cd [8390]
Oct 29 14:12:39 server kernel: <c021e28a> qdisc_restart+0x8f/0xf2 <c0214df0> net_tx_action+0x87/0x94
Oct 29 14:12:39 server kernel: <c0110a59> __do_softirq+0x35/0x7f <c0110ac5> do_softirq+0x22/0x26
Oct 29 14:12:39 server kernel: <c0103a69> do_IRQ+0x1e/0x24 <c010271a> common_interrupt+0x1a/0x20
Oct 29 14:12:39 server kernel: <c028f3f7> schedule+0x481/0x4d2 <c0280060> atalk_sum_partial+0x16/0x27
Oct 29 14:12:39 server kernel: <c0128ae1> kswapd+0xaa/0xc6 <c011a42c> autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2d
Oct 29 14:12:39 server kernel: <c0128a37> kswapd+0x0/0xc6 <c0100ad5> kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb
Oct 29 14:12:39 server kernel: Mem-info:
Oct 29 14:12:39 server kernel: DMA per-cpu:
Oct 29 14:12:39 server kernel: cpu 0 hot: high 0, batch 1 used:0
Oct 29 14:12:39 server kernel: cpu 0 cold: high 0, batch 1 used:0
Oct 29 14:12:39 server kernel: DMA32 per-cpu: empty
Oct 29 14:12:39 server kernel: Normal per-cpu: empty
Oct 29 14:12:39 server kernel: HighMem per-cpu: empty
Oct 29 14:12:39 server kernel: Free pages: 192kB (0kB HighMem)
Oct 29 14:12:39 server kernel: Active:1398 inactive:435 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0 free:48 slab:1021 mapped:1203 pagetables:134
Oct 29 14:12:39 server kernel: DMA free:192kB min:512kB low:640kB high:768kB active:5592kB inactive:1740kB present:16384kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
Oct 29 14:12:39 server kernel: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0
Oct 29 14:12:39 server kernel: DMA32 free:0kB min:0kB low:0kB high:0kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
Oct 29 14:12:39 server kernel: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0
Oct 29 14:12:39 server kernel: Normal free:0kB min:0kB low:0kB high:0kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
Oct 29 14:12:39 server kernel: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0
Oct 29 14:12:39 server kernel: HighMem free:0kB min:128kB low:128kB high:128kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
Oct 29 14:12:39 server kernel: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0
Oct 29 14:12:39 server kernel: DMA: 0*4kB 0*8kB 0*16kB 0*32kB 1*64kB 1*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 192kB
Oct 29 14:12:39 server kernel: DMA32: empty
Oct 29 14:12:39 server kernel: Normal: empty
Oct 29 14:12:39 server kernel: HighMem: empty
Oct 29 14:12:39 server kernel: Swap cache: add 71327, delete 70809, find 22817/38496, race 0+2
Oct 29 14:12:39 server kernel: Free swap = 183476kB
Oct 29 14:12:39 server kernel: Total swap = 195544kB
Oct 29 14:12:39 server kernel: Free swap: 183476kB
Oct 29 14:12:39 server kernel: 4096 pages of RAM
Oct 29 14:12:39 server kernel: 0 pages of HIGHMEM
Oct 29 14:12:39 server kernel: 886 reserved pages
Oct 29 14:12:39 server kernel: 2437 pages shared
Oct 29 14:12:39 server kernel: 518 pages swap cached
Oct 29 14:12:39 server kernel: 0 pages dirty
Oct 29 14:12:39 server kernel: 0 pages writeback
Oct 29 14:12:39 server kernel: 1203 pages mapped
Oct 29 14:12:39 server kernel: 1021 pages slab
Oct 29 14:12:39 server kernel: 134 pages pagetables
This repeats itself from time to time, and well, I can compile a kernel, but this all says nothing to me (yeah, that it can't allocate memory after an interrupt, but the swap is 90% free, what's wrong with writing some pages to it?)
anyway, if someone wants to help (even to say where a better place to post this is), please.
If you need more info, you can download the full kernel log and the full kernel .config from:
http://help.hofhom.nl/kernel/
well, if the server is up anyway.
