Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Miquel van Smoorenburg) | Subject | Re: Looking for better 2.2-based VM (do_try_to_free_pages fails, machine hangs) | Date | 1 Nov 2000 13:39:36 GMT |
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In article <20001101133307.A10265@bylbo.nowhere.earth>, Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org> wrote: >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.
I'm seeing the same on some machines. Running several instances of bonnie on a dual SMP Intel with a DAC 1164 raid controller would kill the machine in a few hours. However it has been running several bonnies now without a hitch for 2 days, on 2.2.18pre18
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