Re: do_try_to_free_pages failes in pre17-6

[Wes Cowley]

I got these constantly as soon as swapping started under 2.2.16 up until
whichever 2.2.17pre patch added Andrea's memory patch, pre4 I think.  I'm
seeing them very rarely now in 2.2.17pre5.  But, compared to 2.2.16 where
the machine would stop dead during floods of the messages, I'm not
noticing any performance problems under 2.2.17pre5. 

Wes

On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Olaf Titz wrote:

> > Jun 20 22:33:26 localhost kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd...
> > Jun 20 22:38:37 localhost kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd...
> 
> I see these too, under 2.2.17pre5 + bridge + tcp_vegas. The machine is
> a K6 with 32M of RAM. The messages seem to come at times when cron
> jobs kick in. I tried fiddling with the /proc/sys/vm entries but no
> help.
> 
> I already had a situation when the machine was killed by this -
> messages flooding the serial console, no way to log in (no magic sysrq
> etc. because the box has no keyboard/vga) and the only remedy was the
> reset button. I _think_ that was 2.2.16.
> 
> Olaf
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