Re: [lkml]Re: VM problems still in 2.2.18

[thunder7@xs4all.nl]

On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 09:57:28AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > bug was discovered.  Ever since, I have two boxes here
> > that keep falling over.  Box A will randomly lock without 
> > warning and box B will die and start printing this message 
> > repeatedly on the screen until I physically hit reset:
> 
> What are these two boxes doing ?
> 
> > Is there a patch out there that I can apply to 2.2.14
> > against the security bug?  The machines were very stable
> > on that kernel.
> 
> Andrea's VM-global patch seems to be a wonder cure for those who have tried
> it. Give it a shot and let folks know.
My experience:

2.2.18pre25 erroneously booted with mem=64M:

slrnpull --expire on a news-spool of about 600 Mb in 200,000 files gave
a lot of 'trying_to_free..' errors.

2.2.18 + VM-global, booted with mem=32M:

slrnpull --expire on the same spool worked fine.

Good luck,
Jurriaan
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