Re: Strange problems...

[Miros/law `Jubal' Baran <baran@makabra.knm.org.pl>]

24.04.2001 pisze Dale Scheetz (dwarf@polaris.net):

> I have a resonably new motherboard with 128 meg of memory. My swap space
> is 100 meg. I just got a slew of messages at the console like:
> 
> VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for WindowMaker...
> VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for WindowMaker...
> VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for WindowMaker...
> VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for acroread...
> VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for acroread...

I presume you have kernel version lower than 2.2.19. The kernels up to
2.2.18 have fscked up memory management; upgrade to 2.2.19 and
everything should be fine

best regards,
Jubal

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