Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 31 Oct 2000 12:02:03 -0200 (BRST) | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.17 & VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed / eepro100 |
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On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Geoff Winkless wrote:
> "Alan Cox" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes: > [about what I wrote] > > > > VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for httpd... > > > > VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for httpd... > > > > These if they are odd ones and the box continues are fine, if you get > masses > > of them then probably not > > What's it actually doing when this happens? Would it help to allocate more > VM?
This means try_to_free_pages() function (obviously this function tries to free pages :)) failed to free any page.
The process will probably free pages (or found free pages around) on the next run(s) of try_to_free_pages.
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