Kernel OOPS:Badness in map_area_pte at mm/vmalloc.c:126 - Why should it misbehave? Linux 2.6.11

2007-04-19 Thread Ashish Gupta
Hi, On configuring an ARM based gateway with a large number of iptables rules, in the kernel, memory allocation (vmalloc) in the kernel half of IPTABLES issues the following warning Badness in map_area_pte at mm/vmalloc.c:126 Badness in map_area_pte at mm/vmalloc.c:126 Badness in map_area_pte at

problem in BOGOmips

2001-02-09 Thread Ashish Gupta
450 AMD-K6 900 2.2.14 800 intel 1600 2.2.16 Why there is a exceptional behaviour of bogomips for 233 intel ? If there is some patch or changes then please indicate so that i can use it. Thanks in advance Ashish Gupta - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Uninterruptible Sleep ???

2000-08-29 Thread ashish gupta
Hi, Before calling get_pid the state of child is set to TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE and after get_pid it is changed to TASK_RUNNNING.Why ?? Is it possbile that a process may leave the CPU during get_pid? Can any body tell me how linux is ensuring that scheduling can not happen when a proc