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Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 21:58:43 -0700
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William Lee Irwin III wrote:
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> ...
> MemTotal:     32107256 kB
> MemFree:      27564648 kB

I'd be suspecting that your node fallback is bust.

Suggest you add a call to show_free_areas() somewhere; consider
exposing the full per-zone status via /proc with a proper patch.
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