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Subject: Re: Linux 2.2.18pre25
To: M.Kacer@sh.cvut.cz (Martin Kacer)
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 17:20:43 +0000 (GMT)
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>    We aplied 2.2.18pre25 patch yesterday hoping it could solve it. The
> only difference is that the server reached several hours uptime instead of
> 40 minutes (with pre24). After two hours of load between 6.00 and 15.00
> the console was flooded with those unpopular messages ("VM: ..."). The
> system was taken down by generation of these messages so quickly, that
> even none of the messages appeared in syslog! No response to Ctrl-Alt-Del,
> of course... :-( Just trashing...
> 
>    Our bug can generate them. :-( Maybe it's a different one? ;-)

Quite possibly.

>    Is there any chance to get rid of these VMM failures?

By finding them. Are you confident you are not running out of memory. 
Presumably since 2.2.13 works you are 8)
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