Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 06:54:30 -0800
From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: page allocation failure
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On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 12:36:02PM +0100, Oliver Kiddle wrote:
> If anyone can suggest any /proc variables I might change to reduce the
> risk of it doing this again, I would appreciate it. I tried increasing
> /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes after the first time this happened. Not
> that I understand what that does: I searched the archives and it was
> mentioned in a vaguely relevant looking post.

Try running "vmstat 1" and output that to a file, and post your /proc/meminfo.

Do you start getting the error before a couple of days, or you just can't
login after that amount of time?
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