Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 31 Jul 1996 15:09:46 -0400 | From | Russell Berry <> | Subject | free pages |
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I'm running 2.0.8, all new everything, have been for some time now, I just noticed these popping up in syslog...
# tail /var/log/syslog Jul 31 10:40:49 seinfeld kernel: Couldn't get a free page..... Jul 31 10:43:48 seinfeld kernel: Couldn't get a free page..... Jul 31 10:46:55 seinfeld kernel: Couldn't get a free page..... Jul 31 12:08:32 seinfeld kernel: Couldn't get a free page.....
several of them here and there, the machine has 16Meg Ram and 32Meg swap, nothing dies, just a growing log. I understand that basically the kernel is complaining that it can't swap pages, or can't create new process table entries, but I'm not sure why. This is what's free when I get this:
free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 14628 14500 128 8776 100 4552 -/+ buffers: 9848 4780 Swap: 32764 13588 19176
anything here I should worry about? Is there any way I can stop this action?
---russ
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