Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 1 Nov 2000 09:41:04 -0200 (BRST) | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | Re: Looking for better 2.2-based VM (do_try_to_free_pages fails, machine hangs) |
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On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Yann Dirson wrote:
> Hi, > > Using a 2.2.17 kernel I often experience problems where I get messages like > "VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for <some process>", and the machine hangs > until the VM can recover, which sometimes takes too long for me to wait. I > suppose that the problem is similar sometimes when I get a frozen system > under X, but can't see the kernel messages then. > > Yesterday I could reproduce this at will, with a "make -j50" on 2.2.17 > sources (as unpriviledged user). In less than half an our syslogd stopped > to log anything (at 00:38), and this morning I could only see those messages > trying to free pages for (or from ?) wwwoffled. Last load see by "top" on > another VC was ~74. > > Have some work been done for 2.2.18 that could help me ? Are there some > 2.2-based VM patches that could help (I found the VM-global patch from > Andrea but have no info about what it is
VM-global It should fix your problem.
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