Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 16 Feb 2001 04:34:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 16 Feb 2001 04:34:39 -0500 Received: from mx1.nameplanet.com ([213.203.30.51]:23311 "HELO mx1.nameplanet.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 16 Feb 2001 04:34:26 -0500 Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 10:37:08 +0100 (CET) From: Ketil Froyn To: Subject: out of memory? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi. I'm getting lots of this on a computer: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for myprog.pl VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for myprog.pl VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for myprog.pl .... VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kupdate (just saw this once) myprog is basically making lots of directories, and is not using lots of memory. Here's the info from 'ps auxw': USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 994 22.6 0.3 2568 364 tty1 R Feb15 230:40 perl -w myprog.pl It doesn't seem like I'm out of memory: $ cat /proc/meminfo total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 97730560 96149504 1581056 2125824 5447680 5115904 Swap: 68083712 35213312 32870400 MemTotal: 95440 kB MemFree: 1544 kB MemShared: 2076 kB Buffers: 5320 kB Cached: 4996 kB SwapTotal: 66488 kB SwapFree: 32100 kB $ uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 2.2.18RAID #6 Wed Feb 14 19:15:49 CET 2001 \ i586 unknown The kernel is compiled with the rh-7.0 kgcc (egcs-2.91.66), and I've patched it to get raid 0.90 and reiserfs 3.5.29. What's going on? How bad is this? Ketil Froyn - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/