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Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 14:19:45 +0200
From: Ville Herva <vherva@mail.niksula.cs.hut.fi>
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Cc: Matthias.Andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de
Subject: Re: [2.2.18] VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed
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On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 01:03:00PM +0100, you [Matthias Andree] claimed:
> 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,
> How can I get rid of those do_try_to_free_pages lockups? That box
 
Almost everybody (including me) who have seen that problem seem to
have had it fixed with Andrea Arcangeli's VM-global-7 patch
(ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea...).

> Should I try the most recent 2.2.19-pre?

Yes, Andrea's VM-global-7 is included in pre2.


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