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

[Martin Macok]

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On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 08:07:38AM -0400, Steven N. Hirsch wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Martin Macok wrote:
> > yesterday I was editing 56MB large file with ViM editor.
> >=20
> > 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...
>=20
> I've also been seeing these on a regular basis.  Reports to the lk list
> have been met with utter silence. =20
>=20
> >  ... and Linux went unusable for 1 hour (swapping ...)

On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 08:03:28AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> "Steven N. Hirsch" wrote:
> > I've also been seeing these on a regular basis.  Reports to the lk list
> > have been met with utter silence.
>=20
> Try 2.2.17-pre9.

YES! I got it and tried again with 68MB file editing in ViM with the same
operation (dG). I don't see any "... failed ..." anywhere, my system is
quite usable (operation still continues ;-]) - I'm writing this during it
and Linux responds very well ... so it seemes solved to me.

Thank you guys and happy hacking!

bye

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