Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2425 mails)

[grimmer@xxxxxxx (Lenz Grimmer)]

Hi,

On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, David A. de Groot wrote:

> I have just upgraded my server to Kernel 2.2.16-SuSE which I
> downloaded fom the SuSE ftp site, and I'm getting some odd VM (virtual
> machine) errors in my log files. I have had to reboot back to the
> 2.2.14-SuSE kernel.
> 
> A sample of my log messages are:
> 
> Jun 29 10:09:00 eric kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd...
> Jun 29 10:09:33 eric kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for bash...
> Jun 29 10:13:07 eric kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd...
> Jun 29 10:15:02 eric kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for
> fetchnews...
> Jun 29 10:15:03 eric kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd...
> Jun 29 10:15:03 eric kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for
> run-crons...
> Jun 29 10:15:03 eric kernel: VM: killing process run-crons
> 
> Anybody else encountered this?
> If so, is there a fix?

The virtual memory management of the 2.2.16 kernel seems to have some
problems. I posted a patch for this problem yesterday. We will also
provide new RPMs ASAP.

Bye,
        LenZ

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