Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 07:33:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 07:33:34 -0500 Received: from p3EE3C909.dip.t-dialin.net ([62.227.201.9]:46084 "HELO emma1.emma.line.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 07:33:28 -0500 Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 13:03:00 +0100 From: Matthias Andree To: Linux-Kernel mailing list Subject: [2.2.18] VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed Message-ID: <20001220130259.A9659@emma1.emma.line.org> Mail-Followup-To: Linux-Kernel mailing list Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Last night, one of your production machines got wedged, I caught a lot of kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for ... for a whole range of processes, among them ypbind, klogd, syslogd, xntpd, cron, nscd, X, master (Postfix super daemon), pvmd3, K applications and so on, I was unable to log in via ssh, someone on-site has finally reset that machine this noon to bring it back online. How can I get rid of those do_try_to_free_pages lockups? That box exports root file systems for some SparcStation 2 that are used as X terminals, so it's pretty important I keep that box running. Should I try the most recent 2.2.19-pre? The machine is a pentium-MMX with 64 MB RAM with a kernel 2.2.18 that has these patches/updated drivers (none VM related AFAICS): IDE 2.2.18.1209 I?C 2.5.4 LM_Sensors 2.5.4 DC390 2.0e7 ReiserFS 3.5.28 -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/