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Re: Potato on a PORTA-PC P5-486/B&W



On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 05:46:31PM +0100, Dieter Faulbaum wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I try to install a 2.2-system on such a laptop (a 486DX2 with 8MB
> memory) but get thesh error messages after loading the root.bin
> disc (the last lines several times):
> 
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 148K freed
> VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd
> 
> 
> Can anyone tell me what can be wrong? I use the rescue.bin disc from
> safe. Are 8MB not enough for this version?
I'm pretty damn sure that this is only a debug message left over.
I had this, too, with certain 2.2.x kernels.

AFAICT this is only informative, not critical.

But OTOH ICBW :-)

Andreas Mohr



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