Linux-kernel mailing list archive 2000-26,: Re: 2.2.16: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed

# Re: 2.2.16: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed

Ulrich Windl (Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de)
Fri, 30 Jun 2000 14:16:21 +0200

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I had these messages after only running the system for a few hours,
and I always thought the 2.2 series are well-tested (I mean _before_
release). So 2.2.15 already was severly broken (see
http://www.sendmail.org), now 2.2.16 is also broken. The solution
can't be to recommend any pre* patch.

Seriously I think 1.3MB (compressed) patches for a stable kernel are
too large. Also I (not reading this list) see no motivation for the
change. 2.2.14 seemed to that bad though, and both 2.2.15 and 2.2.16
missed an important updated for AIC7xxx "domain validation".

Thanks for the answer anyway.

Regards,
Ulrich

On 30 Jun 00, at 7:41, Steven N. Hirsch wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Ulrich Windl wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > probably the issue has been discussed to death already, but for me
> > these messages started with 2.2.16, and I'm rather sure that I did
> > not run out of VM.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ulrich
> >
> > Jun 25 15:18:47 elf kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd...
> > Jun 25 15:19:20 elf kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd...
>
> Ulrich,
>
> Apparently, this was the underlying symptom behind the recent threads on
> 2.2.x VM modifications. After being publicly chastised for my posts on
> the subject, I'm reassured to find that other lk regulars also failed to
> make this connection ;-).
>
> Nonetheless, Alan's 2.2.17pre9 seems to have fixed it.
>
>
>

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