On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 11:56:10PM +0100 or thereabouts, Frodo Baggins wrote: > Colin Watson scripsit: > >More accurately, it's a known bug in the Linux kernel (specifically, > >version 2.2.17, I think, and possibly certain 2.4.0-test versions as > >well). I'm told 2.2.18 will fix it. > > Well, It doesn't :) I have installed the 2.2.18 kernel on potato and > still have this problem... And it does not seems so unharmfull to me. > Sometime the box freeze, just as if I got a BSoD on a M$ machine! This > happens a lot when I use memory-greedy applications, of course. > strange. on this box i'm writing this email i never experience this VM problem (128MB ram, 6GB hd all for Linux, plus running helixcode and mozilla and xchat) although on the other machine i installed 2.2 (96MB ram, 4GB hd, running on console only) i get that VM error message for "kupdate" and such. in short, it's not only because one uses greedy apps but it could be hardware related. welp, that's my observation from here. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Key fingerprint = 9DE1 5825 77B4 FF45 7485 D3EB DCCF DE48 09B6 4426 -------------------------------------------------------------------- "Who's watching the watchmen?"
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