Re: couldn't get a free page
I have seen the same problem with a small system (8MB) when attempting to
mkfs a disk drive. I wonder if it has anything to do with the disk
controller baing busy when the system attempts to swap. This is a BusTek
ISA SCSI controller card that seems to want to load the BusLogic Driver.
It is the only disk controller on the system and has three hard drives and
a floppy attached. It probably would not happen with bus-mastering
controllers or and local bus controllers such as VESA or PCI if my
speculation is correct.
What is your disk subsystem configuration.
On Tue, 27 May 1997, David Miles wrote:
> I installed debian on my computer last week. I left it sitting for the
> weekend. When I returned, I found the following message updating every so
> often on my screen: "couldn't get a free page"
>
> When I hit enter, I get the following statement "Out of memory for bash" a
> few seconds later "Out of memory for init appeared"
>
> I am not sure what is going on. I have 6MB of Ram and at least 16 MB of
> swapping space on my HD for the program.
>
> Please help
>
> dblm
>
>
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