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Re: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed




1) Has anyone out there managed to fix the kernel VM problem by
upgrading to the 2.4 kernel?

Oct 22 03:11:26 debian kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for rxvt...
Oct 22 03:11:26 debian last message repeated 2 times
Oct 22 03:11:26 debian kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for init...
Oct 22 03:11:26 debian kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for init...
Oct 22 03:11:26 debian kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for netstat...

Other people have reported this problem on the list and it was recommended
that they upgrade to 2.2.18, but searching around with google and
dejanews I found a few 2.2.18 people who were still having the same problem.

On a similar but different note - I get this booting the potato disks on a laptop with 4 Mb ram, but its
Oct 20 14:22:55 debian kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for init...
Oct 20 14:22:55 debian kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for swapper...

Can you free up ram by running sync periodically?

Is there something common in swap partition configs?

4) Will I need to upgrade anything else if I move up to the 2.4 kernels?

Modutils comes to mind straight away

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Criggie



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