Re: Strange problems...
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Dale Scheetz wrote:
>
> 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...
>
> and even gpm complained when I tried to highlight the above text.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
ok it's been said before, but: it's a problem with linux 2.2.17. upgrade
to 2.2.19.
btw, though the messages are irritating, they are non-fatal. i had a
2.2.17 box with ~4 months of uptime that got that crap in the logs several
times a day.
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