Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Jul 2000 20:04:01 -0300 (BRT) | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | Re: VM, cdrom problems with 2.2.17pre13 |
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On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues wrote:
> Marcelo Tosatti writes: > > Maybe the machine has not really crashed, but the nasty shrink_mmap loop > > is hitting you. > > Could be, it looks like a loop. Usually I'm inside X and can't even > switch to the console (or change desktops) to look at the error > messages... > > By "crash" I meant that I had to press the reset button.
Exactly. The patch I sent you should fix this.
> > > Could you please try the attached patch and report results? > > I compiled a new kernel (btw, I didn't `make clean', I just patched > filemap.c and did a `make zImage', I remember it used to be a no-no > with 2.0, is it ok w/ 2.2?) and tried: > > $ perl -e 'while (1) { $a[$i++] = 1 }' & > > When the swap was exhausted, the behaviour was: > > 1) Console: perl was killed with an `out of memory' message. > > 2) Console with X, netscape and emacs running: I still get > > VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for ... > > repeatedly.
This is expected behaviour. The patch I sent you will avoid the crash, not the "VM: do_try_to..." messages.
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