Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 May 1997 21:11:55 +0000 (GMT) | From | Gerard Roudier <> | Subject | Re: pre 2.0.31: try_to_free_page |
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I told you the patch was broken. You just have checked I was right. I donnot exactly guess what happens with negative priorities (i=-1,-2, ...). I seems to me that underlying objects are not expecting such values.
Gerard.
On Thu, 8 May 1997, Trevor Johnson wrote:
> > > I got exactly that message as well, while copying files from one IDE drive > > > to another. I have 64 MB RAM and no swap space activated. > > > > It seems that does not prevent kswapd from being activated. > > I deleted the > > kernel_thread(kswapd, NULL, 0); > > from init/main.c. After rebooting, I started X11 and many X programs, > used cp to copy a large tar file from one IDE hard drive to another, had > tar test another large tar file, then ran (from an account on which limits > weren't properly set) a fork bomb which allocates memory, all at the same > time. Right after starting the fork bomb, I got three more of the > try_to_free_page messages: > > May 8 10:40:22 topside kernel: try_to_free_page: state(0) stop(0) i(-1) > sleep instead of fail > May 8 10:40:23 topside kernel: try_to_free_page: state(0) stop(0) i(-1) > sleep instead of fail > May 8 10:40:28 topside kernel: try_to_free_page: state(0) stop(9) i(-2) > sleep instead of fail > May 8 10:40:56 topside kernel: Unable to load interpreter > May 8 10:41:27 topside last message repeated 11 times
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