Swapfile problem in 6?

[Johny Mattsson]

On 11/16/05 07:49, Lars Kristiansen wrote:
>I had an infinite while loop running during the
>kernel compilation, printing out 'swapinfo' every
>15 seconds. The last output before the machine goes
>dead is this:
>
> /dev/ad0s1b         39848    11820    39848    30%
> /dev/md0           131072     5908   131072     5%
> Total              170920    17728   153192    10%

Quite possibly not related, but on 5.4 I can reliably cause a panic by 
attaching md0 to a file residing on an NFS drive and then use it for 
swap. After 3-5k of used swap on md0, the box dies and reboots. If I run 
"swapon" directly on the NFS file, things work fine, but it did mean 
that I couldn't use the default "addswap" rc script to set up the swap 
on my diskless system.
I'm not sure whether it's supposed to work or not, but I haven't had 
time to look into it yet. Just thought it might be another datapoint for 
someone in the know to consider, just in case it is related.

Cheers,
/Johny
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