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Subject: Re: [reiserfs-list] mongo.sh 2.2.18: do_try_to_free_pages failed
To: wenzhuo@zhmail.com (Wenzhuo Zhang)
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:38:44 +0000 (GMT)
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> > with the 2.2 VM code badly. 2.2.19pre8 fixes the VM behaviour in the general
> > case and that might well make it handle the extra vm pressure reiserfs causes
> > 
> But I got the same VM error when I was testing on an ext2 partition
> under stock kernel (without any external patches).

If the program does a lot of allocation and page dirtying you would see it
on 2.2.18 with any fs. Journalling fs's just make it more likely to trigger.
Andrea fixed this in 2.2.19pre3

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