Re: Kernel VM problems.
Looks like you're out of swap space or memory to me, I guess you'll
probably have more luck posting this to the kernel-list, because this is a
kernel problem. You could try to create a (bigger) swap partition, perhaps
that will work.
Ron Rademaker
On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Morten Liebach wrote:
> Hello Debians.
>
> I seem to have some Kernel VM problems, but I'm not sure why.
>
> Sometimes I see my machine nearly freezing, and then becoming good
> after a minute or two.
> In the logs I get up to several hundred lines like these:
>
> Aug 20 18:22:13 pc89225 kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for gpm...
> Aug 20 18:22:16 pc89225 kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for gpm...
> Aug 20 18:22:18 pc89225 kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for gpm...
> Aug 20 18:22:18 pc89225 kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for ssh-agent...
> Aug 20 18:22:23 pc89225 kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for syslog-ng...
> Aug 20 18:22:55 pc89225 kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for syslog-ng...
> Aug 20 18:22:57 pc89225 kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for gpm...
> Aug 20 18:22:57 pc89225 kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd...
> Aug 20 18:22:57 pc89225 kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for init...
> Aug 20 18:22:57 pc89225 kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for syslog-ng...
>
> etc., etc. ...
>
> (it usually repeats the same message more often than this example).
>
> I do see ``kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for <something>...''
> in the logs from time to time, but they are most often only one or two
> at a time, and they aren't felt at all.
>
> My kernel is a selfcompiled (with make-kpkg) 2.2.17pre6 kernel from the
> kernel-source deb, no extra patches.
>
> I usually happens when I fetch mail with fetchmail, invoking exim,
> procmail and lbdb in the process, but it seems to be all running
> programs that's affected by it.
>
> It's annoying, though it only happens once or twice per week, I'd like
> if there were some kind of fix.
>
> I hope someone more knowledgeable than me knows what's going on, it
> might be a suptle misconfiguration in my kernelconfig ...
>
> Kind regards
> Morten
>
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