2000-12-22 00:50:11

by Roeland Th. Jansen

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Subject: vm 2.2.18 (stock kernel) process hara-kiri's


I thought the 2.2.18 vm would be better :-)... nver have seen so much
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for... messages.

at first the system froze for several seconds. an emer sync worked just
fine so I waited..


Dec 22 00:06:10 grobbebol kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for telnet...
Dec 22 00:06:10 grobbebol kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for telnet...
Dec 22 00:06:10 grobbebol kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for telnet...
Dec 22 00:06:10 grobbebol kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for telnet...
Dec 22 00:06:10 grobbebol kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for mutt...
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol last message repeated 11 times
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for cron...
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol last message repeated 4 times
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for xntpd...
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for miniserv.pl...
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for miniserv.pl...
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for rpc.nfsd...
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol last message repeated 13 times
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for nscd...
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol last message repeated 8 times
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for xntpd...
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for xntpd...
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for klogd...
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol last message repeated 5 times
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for klogd...
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol kernel: Syncing device 03:02 ... VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kflushd...
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kupdate...
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for _upsd...
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for rpc.mountd...
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol last message repeated 5 times
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol kernel: SysRq: Emergency Sync
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for rpc.mountd...
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol last message repeated 6 times
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for xntpd...
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kdeinit...
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol last message repeated 15 times
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for xntpd...
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for syslogd...
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol last message repeated 6 times
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for xntpd...
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for tin...
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol last message repeated 12 times
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for xntpd...
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kdeinit...
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol last message repeated 32 times
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for xntpd...
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for sendmail...
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol last message repeated 13 times
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kdeinit...
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol last message repeated 15 times
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kdesud...
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol last message repeated 12 times
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for xntpd...
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for xntpd...
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kdeinit...
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol last message repeated 32 times
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for inetd...
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol last message repeated 15 times
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kdeinit...
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol last message repeated 15 times
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for xntpd...
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kdeinit...
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for xntpd...
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kdeinit...
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for xntpd...
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kflushd...
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol kernel: OK
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol kernel: Syncing device 03:01 ... OK
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol kernel: Syncing device 03:03 ... OK
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol kernel: Syncing device 03:04 ... OK
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol kernel: Syncing device 08:01 ... OK
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol kernel: Syncing device 0b:00 ... OK
Dec 22 00:06:12 grobbebol kernel: Done.


so... wat should I do, nothing or is a reboot better ? so far all
mentioned processes VM failed for, are in the process table.


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2000-12-22 01:11:15

by Alan

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Subject: Re: vm 2.2.18 (stock kernel) process hara-kiri's

> I thought the 2.2.18 vm would be better :-)... nver have seen so much
> VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for... messages.

Try 2.2.19pre2 or higher

2000-12-22 11:52:38

by Roeland Th. Jansen

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Subject: Re: vm 2.2.18 (stock kernel) process hara-kiri's

On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 12:29:23AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I thought the 2.2.18 vm would be better :-)... nver have seen so much
> > VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for... messages.
>
> Try 2.2.19pre2 or higher

ok, will monitor this. uname -a now :

Linux grobbebol 2.2.19pre3 #1 SMP Fri Dec 22 09:07:45 GMT 2000 i686 unknown

at your service <grin>

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