VM problem with 2.2.18 ?

James Stevenson (mistral@stev.org)
Tue, 13 Mar 2001 23:26:35 +0000 (GMT)


Hi

i had a small problem with a program i was running
which got stuck in a loop allocing memory by the time i
found out it was doing it these were appearing

VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for ypbind...
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for syslogd...
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for klogd...
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for ypserv...
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for ypserv...
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for ypserv...
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for ypserv...
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for ypserv...
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for ypserv...
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for esd...
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for esd...
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for esd...
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for esd...
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for esd...
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for esd...
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for esd...
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for bash...
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for bash...
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for bash...
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for bash...
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for bash...
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for bash...
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for bash...
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for crond...
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for crond...
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for crond...
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for crond...
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for crond...

etc.. etc.. for many more processes
then it all ended in a hangup

i remember hacing these problems around 2.2.14/15 or so
then it never happened again until today

thanks
James

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