Re: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd.

[Stephan Kulka <e9626471@student.tuwien.ac.at>]

> hi,
> I get the above message on a tty
> (VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd)
> when there is much load on a debian 2.2 system.
> 
> What exactly does it mean ? (not enough swap-space ?)
> Is there a way to avoid this ?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> -- 
> Felix Natter
> 
I had the same problem (in fact I still have it sometimes) and I found out
that it is a known bug in debian (there is a bug filed). I did not
understand all the discussion about the issue, but it does not seem to be
that bad.

Stephan