Re: 2.2.16: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for ...

Steven N. Hirsch (shirsch@adelphia.net)
Wed, 28 Jun 2000 08:07:38 -0400 (EDT)


On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Martin Macok wrote:

> Hi,
> yesterday I was editing 56MB large file with ViM editor.
>
> After some operations like 'delete from here to EOF' (dG) I got
> 10^n messages like that:
> VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for epic...
> VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for ssh...
> VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for bash...

I've also been seeing these on a regular basis. Reports to the lk list
have been met with utter silence.

> ... and Linux went unusable for 1 hour (swapping ...)

I'm not seeing that. My box is a dual PIII SMP w/ 256MB ram and 128MB
swap.

Steve

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