Re: system crash
On Sat, Sep 23, 2000 at 10:53:59PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> 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.
Happened here with 2.2.17 final all the time. It's fixed in 2.2.18pre9 at
least.
cu
Torsten
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