xconsole message: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd...

[Till Neunhoeffer <neunhoef@dhemze.physik.uni-mainz.de>]

Hi everybody,

We see strange messages in the kernel log, the syslog, and the
xconsole. They read

Oct 11 11:26:18 wetap50 kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for
kswapd...

This happens on several machines, all of which are running potato with a
2.2.17pre6 from the debian kernel source package. The machines are all
k6II computers. 

On a new Athlon Thunderbird, we see these messages as well, just a lot
more of them.

We have a common NIS/NFS cluster with ~15 debian linux boxes (as
above) and about 10 DEC Unix machines.

I would be very glad for some pointers on what this problem could be. 

Please reply to me directly, as I am not on this list.

Thank you very much 
Till Neunhoeffer