Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 12 Sep 2000 17:04:00 -0500 | From | Mike Castle <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.17 & VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed / eepro100 |
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On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 09:41:13PM +0200, octave klaba wrote: > Hello, > On a high load server, kernel has some errors: > > VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for httpd... > VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for httpd... > eth0: Too much work at interrupt, status=0x4050. > eth0: Too much work at interrupt, status=0x4050. > > is there somewhere the new version of driver for eepro100 > to make a test ?
I don't think the eepro100 has antyhing to do with this problem. I observed it as well the other day, and wasn't doing much network. I was thinking it might have something to do with IDE stuff (oh, this was on 2.2.17+RAID).
The following is what I saw:
hdd: timeout waiting for DMA hdd: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } ide1: reset: success VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for nmbd... VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for nmbd... VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for nmbd... VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for nmbd... VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for nmbd... VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for nmbd... VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for nmbd... VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for nmbd... VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for init... VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for init... VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for init... VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for init... VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for init... VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for klogd... VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for klogd... VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for klogd... VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for klogd... VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for klogd... VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for klogd... VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for klogd... 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VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for rpc.nfsd... hdd: timeout waiting for DMA hdd: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } ide1: reset: success hdd: timeout waiting for DMA hdd: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } ide1: reset: success hdb: timeout waiting for DMA hdb: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } hda: drive not ready for command ide0: reset: success
I was testing a harddrive by filling it up. I was doing the following in 3 VCs:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/foo (or bar, or baz, depending on window).
After the first timeout above, I renamed foo/bar/baz to 1/2/3, restarted the dd's and then in a 4th console, did the following:
cp 1 4 & cp 2 5 & cp 3 6 &
Sometime after, I started seeing the above. The machine wasn't doing much of anything else except masquerading a telnet session or two, and running leafnode's fetchnews program.
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