Re: kernel free page

[Christopher W Hafey <chris@river.org>]

> <[🔎] Pine.SOL.3.96.970430134236.18695A-100000@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk> from "G. Kapetanios" at "Apr 30, 97 01:44:44 pm"
> gk205@cus.cam.ac.uk (G. Kapetanios)

And George said:

> Re: kernel free page

> Recently I compiled and installed kernel 2.0.30.
> Today I got two messages I have never got  before
> 
> garfield kernel: Couldn't get a free page....
> garfield eth0: Memory squeeze, deferring packet
> 
> Does anyone know what these mean ??
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>                                       George 

Hi George,

I don't know exactly what they mean.  I get similar ones,
and a ttyS0 overrun one, and a couple of others.

I just tell myself that the kernel always acted on these
same symptoms before, only it didn't bother to report them
to the console, whereas now it does.  Or, perhaps, these
errors are being logged to a high-profile alert system,
instead of silently to disk log, by programming oversight.

You know?  I'm probably kidding myself.  Heh.

Christopher
---
p.s.  Here are all related errors, logged, since the new 
      kernel build on Sunday (a little compressed in format, 
      for decorum's sake):

Apr 27 16:06:15 tingri kernel:
 Loaded 3876 symbols from /boot/System.map.
Apr 27 16:06:15 tingri kernel: Symbols match kernel version.
Apr 27 16:06:15 tingri kernel:
 Linux version 2.0.30 (tingri@tingri.ml.org)
 (gcc version 2.7.2.1) #1 Sun Apr 27 09:30:24 EDT 1997
Apr 28 04:08:54 Apr 28 04:54:10 Apr 28 05:07:20 Apr 29 04:04:51
Apr 29 04:11:23 tingri kernel: .. all said: ttyS0: 1 input overrun(s)
Apr 29 06:06:38 tingri kernel: Couldn't get a free page.....
Apr 29 06:06:40 tingri kernel:
 eth0: Couldn't allocate a sk_buff of size 1514.
Apr 29 06:06:40 tingri kernel:
 eth0: Couldn't allocate a sk_buff of size 1514.
Apr 30 04:00:31 tingri kernel: ttyS0: 1 input overrun(s)
Apr 30 04:31:33 tingri kernel: ttyS0: 1 input overrun(s)

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