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SubjectRe: Nasty VM lockup with v2.1.108
On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Bill Hawes wrote:

> This first line should just be a warning, but by failing to remove the
> page it results in a cascade of messages. The second line occurs because
> the swap entry has been released, so repeated attempts to remove the
> page then cause reports of the swap map being bad.

Ah! That explains the problems. I'll expect to see the patch in 2.1.109
then - I don't think this VM problem occurs regularly for me. I guess it
happened when my system was fully maxed out (and it's not often I max it
out!)

> I've posted a patch that should take care of things. (Sorry about your
> lost work.)

Nah, I did it better the second time around :o)

Cheers,
Alex.

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