Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 29 Jul 1996 17:23:53 +0100 (BST) | From | Philip Blundell <> | Subject | Re: Sundry repeating 2.0.x problems |
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On 27 Jul 1996, Steven L Baur wrote:
> I wish I knew what this meant (I didn't get them before 2.0.0, and > they don't cause a crash, though sometimes a lot of interactive > processes have to be killed before the machine resumes normal execution): > > Jul 3 12:35:29 deanna kernel: Couldn't get a free page..... > Jul 3 12:35:39 deanna kernel: Couldn't get a free page..... > > Jul 20 02:32:06 deanna kernel: Couldn't get a free page..... > Jul 20 02:32:45 deanna last message repeated 4 times > Jul 20 02:33:46 deanna last message repeated 6 times > > I have always observed this message with greater than 30MB of swap > available according to `free'. It seems more likely to occur when I > am running XEmacs 20beta (10MB binary) with the executable on an > NFS-mounted disk and Netscape is also running. But with so much swap > available, I don't get it.
"Couldn't get a free page" means that something (usually the network layer) needed to grab a page of RAM, and there weren't any free. Swapping can't happen at that stage, so you can have as much free swap as you like and it won't help.
P.
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