Messages in this thread |  | | From | thunder7@xs4all ... | Date | Thu, 14 Dec 2000 21:09:41 +0100 | Subject | Re: [lkml]Re: VM problems still in 2.2.18 |
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On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 09:57:28AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > bug was discovered. Ever since, I have two boxes here > > that keep falling over. Box A will randomly lock without > > warning and box B will die and start printing this message > > repeatedly on the screen until I physically hit reset: > > What are these two boxes doing ? > > > Is there a patch out there that I can apply to 2.2.14 > > against the security bug? The machines were very stable > > on that kernel. > > Andrea's VM-global patch seems to be a wonder cure for those who have tried > it. Give it a shot and let folks know. My experience:
2.2.18pre25 erroneously booted with mem=64M:
slrnpull --expire on a news-spool of about 600 Mb in 200,000 files gave a lot of 'trying_to_free..' errors.
2.2.18 + VM-global, booted with mem=32M:
slrnpull --expire on the same spool worked fine.
Good luck, Jurriaan -- proof by reference to inaccessible literature: The author cites a simple corollary of a theorem to be found in a privately circulated memoir of the Slovenian Philological Society, 1883 (second edition). GNU/Linux 2.2.18 SMP 2x1117 bogomips load av: 0.56 0.15 0.05 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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