Re: 2.2.16 - Crash

Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Sat, 5 Aug 2000 18:17:11 -0300 (BRST)


On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Alan Cox wrote:

> > i have also been getting these it appears to be when the system
> > runs out of memory. i though that this was not meant to happen
> > under linux
>
> It depends on what resource limits you set. Linux does overcommit.

I don't think that's the problem with the typical
"VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed" message. It just
means do_try_to_free_pages didn't find a page to
free. This can happen too in situations where there
_is_ backing store available (which is a bug, imho).

regards,

Rik

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