[Fedora-xen] "4gb seg fixup, process X" on FC6 dom0

Asrai khn asraikhn at gmail.com
Sun Jan 21 16:20:02 UTC 2007


Yes there is a fix for this you can find the solution in the archives

http://www.mail-archive.com/fedora-xen@redhat.com/msg00053.html

Thanks. Askar


On 1/19/07, Jim McBeath <fedora-xen at j.jimmc.org> wrote:
>
> I am running a stock FC6 xen, with all yum updates through today, on a
> Shuttle box with a Core 2 Duo and 2GB of memory.  I am getting "4gb seg
> fixup" for plenty of programs, including X, sh, ls, date, grep, less,
> ssh, su and vim.  This is in dom0, with no domU running.
>
> The worst offender is X: in /var/log/messages, every five seconds
> it consistently logs something like this:
>
>   Jan 18 19:34:59 gumby kernel: printk: 30302 messages suppressed.
>   Jan 18 19:34:59 gumby kernel: 4gb seg fixup, process X (pid 4383), cs:ip
> 73:47150f2a
>
> 20,000 is typical for the number of messages suppressed.  It varies in
> different five-second intervals from about 10,000 to 89,000.
>
> I have poked around on the net and searched through the archives
> for this group, without finding an answer.  I have seen a few posts
> about 4gb-seg-fixup messages in domU, or from mono programs, or from
> older OSs that needed a "nosegneg" file in /etc/ld.so.conf.d, but
> none of those seem to apply here.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> --
> Jim McBeath
>
>
> [root at gumby ~]# uname -a
> Linux gumby.local 2.6.19-1.2895.fc6xen #1 SMP Wed Jan 10 19:47:12 EST 2007
> i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> [root at gumby ~]# ls /etc/ld.so.conf.d
> kernelcap-2.6.18-1.2869.fc6.conf  mysql-i386.conf
> kernelcap-2.6.19-1.2895.fc6.conf  qt-i386.conf
> [root at gumby ~]# cat /etc/ld.so.conf.d/kernelcap-2.6.19-1.2895.fc6.conf
> # This directive teaches ldconfig to search in nosegneg subdirectories
> # and cache the DSOs there with extra bit 0 set in their hwcap match
> # fields.  In Xen guest kernels, the vDSO tells the dynamic linker to
> # search in nosegneg subdirectories and to match this extra hwcap bit
> # in the ld.so.cache file.
> hwcap 0 nosegneg
> [root at gumby ~]#
>
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