Re: [reiserfs-list] mongo.sh 2.2.18: do_try_to_free_pages failed

©[@ÄØÿ¿8þÿ¿John R Lenton (solics@icafe.ro)
Tue, 6 Feb 2001 11:41:56 +0200 (EET)


This is a bad RAM problem, or insufficient RAM (slightly less possible)

On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Wenzhuo Zhang wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I got the VM error "VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for mongo_read..."
> and then I couldn't log into the system, when stress testing
> reiserfs+raid0 setup on a 2.2.18 box using the reiserfs benchmark
> mongo.sh. The problem was reporduceable on each run of mongo.sh.
>
> ./mongo.sh reiserfs /dev/md0 /mnt/testfs raid0-rfs 3
>
> Thinking the raid code might cause the problem, I tested on reiserfs
> only, but I got the same error message. Later, I found the same
> problem running mongo.sh on an ext2 partition (stock kernel without
> any patches).
>
> I guess this problem is not reiserfs specific. What can I do now to
> solve the problem?
>
> Here is the hardware configuration of my test box:
> PIII 600, 256M, Adaptec AIC-7896 SCSI controller, two Quantum SCSI
> disks.
>
> Regards,
>

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