Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Sep 1997 12:42:56 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Mark Habersack <> | Subject | Re: Final pre-2.0.31.. Expect this to be same as real 2.0.31 |
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On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Rogier Wolff wrote:
> > > Could not get a free page is ok, does not depend on swap space free > > > and does not mean anything bad. > > Well, imho it is bad. It means something in the allocation mechanism fails, > > and if it happens in some critical routine, the kernel is cooked. > > If you get the message while svgatextmode is going towards a higher > resolution mode, then the kernel is allocating memory for the > offscreen video buffers. In that case, you have to have enough memory > available. Because this operation requires quite a lot of extra memory That's right, I've just checked that in svgatextmode sources. Well...
> at exactly one moment in time, there is not much we can do about > it.... Right, but still the system has all the swap space available - so why doesn't that swap occur when stm needs that memory?
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