Distribution: Gentoo 2004.3 Hardware Environment: AMD XP2000+, 768 MB, # lspci 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400/KT600 AGP] Host Bridge 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 PCI Bridge 0000:00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) 0000:00:0b.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 02) 0000:00:0b.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 02) 0000:00:0d.0 Communication controller: Agere Systems (former Lucent Microelectronics) LT WinModem (rev 02) 0000:00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80) 0000:00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80) 0000:00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80) 0000:00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82) 0000:00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge 0000:00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 0000:00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev a2) Software Environment: Problem Description: System stops and reboots during recording TV by Mencoder or xawdecode to the file (*.avi) This happens repeatedly. I studied extract from TOP and I noticed that it has never been used SWAP only MEM. This is an example of extract of TOP while the system was running before crash. top - 21:11:46 up 3:48, 6 users, load average: 0.90, 0.92, 0.59 Tasks: 105 total, 4 running, 101 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 65.3% us, 4.3% sy, 0.0% ni, 29.7% id, 0.0% wa, 0.7% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 775116k total, 764804k used, 10312k free, 133680k buffers Swap: 337356k total, 0k used, 337356k free, 372212k cached Mar 27 15:26:53 localhost kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------ Mar 27 15:26:53 localhost kernel: kernel BUG at mm/vmscan.c:659! Mar 27 15:26:53 localhost kernel: invalid operand: 0000 [#1] Mar 27 15:26:53 localhost kernel: Modules linked in: cisco_ipsec it87 eeprom lm90 i2c_sensor i2c_isa i2c_viapro snd_via82xx snd_mpu401_uart snd_rawmidi snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec rtc tuner tvaudio bttv video_buf firmware_class i2c_algo_bit v4l2_common btcx_risc i2c_core videodev nvidiaevdev wacom ohci_hcd uhci_hcd usb_storage usbhid ehci_hcd Mar 27 15:26:53 localhost kernel: CPU: 0 Mar 27 15:26:53 localhost kernel: EIP: 0060:[refill_inactive_zone+164/1136] Tainted: P VLI Mar 27 15:26:53 localhost kernel: EIP: 0060:[<c013c484>] Tainted: P VLI Mar 27 15:26:53 localhost kernel: EFLAGS: 00010046 (2.6.10-gentoo-r5) Mar 27 15:26:53 localhost kernel: EIP is at refill_inactive_zone+0xa4/0x470 Mar 27 15:26:53 localhost kernel: eax: 00000000 ebx: c03ff994 ecx: c1400158 edx: 00000008 Mar 27 15:26:53 localhost kernel: esi: 00000001 edi: c03ff8c4 ebp: efe83f60 esp: efe83e94 Mar 27 15:26:53 localhost kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Mar 27 15:26:53 localhost kernel: Process kswapd0 (pid: 195, threadinfo=efe83000 task=efe82a40) Mar 27 15:26:53 localhost kernel: Stack: efe83ed0 c133e0a0 c03ff8c4 c03ff994 efe83eb8 00000000 00000008 00000001 Mar 27 15:26:53 localhost kernel: 00000000 efe83eb8 efe83eb8 efe83ec0 efe83ec0 c1400138 c1400138 00000000 Mar 27 15:26:53 localhost kernel: 00000001 c14004a0 c14004c0 c14004e0 c1400100 c1400520 c1400500 c1400ba0 Mar 27 15:26:53 localhost kernel: Call Trace: Mar 27 15:26:53 localhost kernel: [shrink_zone+147/224] shrink_zone+0x93/0xe0 Mar 27 15:26:53 localhost kernel: [<c013c8e3>] shrink_zone+0x93/0xe0 Mar 27 15:26:53 localhost kernel: [balance_pgdat+594/768] balance_pgdat+0x252/0x300 Mar 27 15:26:53 localhost kernel: [<c013cd92>] balance_pgdat+0x252/0x300 Mar 27 15:26:53 localhost kernel: [kswapd+199/224] kswapd+0xc7/0xe0 Mar 27 15:26:53 localhost kernel: [<c013cf07>] kswapd+0xc7/0xe0 Mar 27 15:26:53 localhost kernel: [autoremove_wake_function+0/96] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x60 Mar 27 15:26:53 localhost kernel: [<c0127020>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x60 Mar 27 15:26:53 localhost kernel: [autoremove_wake_function+0/96] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x60 Mar 27 15:26:53 localhost kernel: [<c0127020>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x60 Mar 27 15:26:53 localhost kernel: [kswapd+0/224] kswapd+0x0/0xe0 Mar 27 15:26:53 localhost kernel: [<c013ce40>] kswapd+0x0/0xe0 Mar 27 15:26:53 localhost kernel: [kernel_thread_helper+5/20] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0x14 Mar 27 15:26:53 localhost kernel: [<c0101291>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0x14 Mar 27 15:26:53 localhost kernel: Code: 39 97 d0 00 00 00 0f 84 8b 00 00 00 8b 8f d4 00 00 00 8b 41 04 39 d8 74 07 83 e8 18 0f 0d 08 90 0f ba 71 e8 05 19 c0 85 c0 75 08 <0f> 0b 93 02 4c 3a 3ac0 8b 51 04 8b 01 89 50 04 89 02 c7 41 04
Does this problem also occur: - with a vanilla 2.6.13-rc3 ftp.kernel.org kernel and - without any external modules loaded since booting?
Too many external (some proprietary) modules