Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 May 1997 18:54:14 +0000 (Local time zone must be set--see zic manual page) | From | Trevor Johnson <> | Subject | Re: pre 2.0.31: try_to_free_page |
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> > 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 ___ Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>
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