Subject: Re: swap_dup: Bad swap file entry 00480020

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 13:36:34 -0400

On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 08:16 -0500, Bogdan Antonovici wrote:
> Yes, it was. After some research on the previous message i realized
> that it run out of memory so i did mem=8M and it hasn't been crashed
> since then.
> I still would like to understand why that swap code was run when the
> swapping wasn't activated at all.

The "swap" code also kicks in for things like mmap of a file, this is
the same code path.

Ben.