Re: system crash

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@csh.rit.edu>]

On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 12:30:24PM +1100, Brian May wrote:

> Just previously, while viewing high resolution images in gqview,
> my computer completely crashed (nothing worked, no network, mouse pointer
> didn't move, no keys did anything, etc). I had to cold reset my
> computer.
> 
> In my log file, I saw the following suspicious message:
> 
> Sep 24 11:28:55 snoopy kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd...
> Sep 24 11:30:10 snoopy kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kupdate...
> Sep 24 11:35:42 snoopy kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd...
> Sep 24 11:35:53 snoopy kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for panel...
> Sep 24 11:36:16 snoopy kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for gpm...
> Sep 24 11:40:06 snoopy kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd...
> Sep 24 11:41:54 snoopy kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd...
> 
> which, to me, might suggest a low memory problem. Is this analysis
> correct?

I had this problem occasionally (though it never led to a crash) with the
2.2.17pre series.  It has not happened to me with 2.2.17 final.

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 - mdz