"Falling back to /proc for VM_*"
Howdy
I've been having a weird problem w/ my machine
(Dual PII 400, 128 SDRAM, AIC7880 onboard SCSI, WD
Enterprise 4Gb; Plextor 8/20 CDR; Archive 4326XX
27871-XXX, Atrend ATC-6260 MB) running potato 1st and
woody presently w/ 2.2.17 kernel.
During boot the message:
Falling back to /proc for VM_bdflush
" " " " " "_buffermem
" " " " " "_freepages
" " " " " "_kswapd
" " " " " "_overcommit_memory
" " " " " "_page-cluster
" " " " " "_pagecache
" " " " " "_pagetable_cache
All listed in /proc/sys/vm.
The disturbing symptom it seems to cause is that
my swap partition (123.38Mb) fills and never releases
until it is in a continual swap that effectively will
freeze the machine if I leave it up too long. This is
why I went to Debian from MickeySloth (win32), and it
seems to be following me.
I have changed the kernel to 2.4.0test9 (message
is still present @ boot) and it SEEMS to have
rectified the problem but my machine hasn't really
been up long enough to tell (1 hr. +, and I have been
able to see the symptom before in this time span). I
have scoured the bug/ mailing list and have not been
able to find any reference to this particular issue
and I am hoping someone out there has already
experienced this situation or has much sharper eyes
than mine and will be able to help point me in the
right direction. Your assistance in this matter is
greatly appreciated!
Debian may not be the easiest distrobution, but
is does seem to be the most powerful and flexible IMO.
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Regards- Nuhn O. Yobiznez
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