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* Re: 2.2.17 & VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed / eepro100
@ 2000-10-31 15:03 Geoff Winkless
  2000-10-31 13:58 ` Marcelo Tosatti
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  0 siblings, 4 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Geoff Winkless @ 2000-10-31 15:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

Hi

Searching through the archives I found this post on Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at
09:41:13PM +0200 from Octave Klaba

> Hello,
> On a high load server, kernel has some errors:
>
> VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for httpd...
> VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for httpd...
> eth0: Too much work at interrupt, status=0x4050.
> eth0: Too much work at interrupt, status=0x4050.
>
> is there somewhere the new version of driver for eepro100
> to make a test ?

I'm wondering if anyone has found a solution for this: our mailserver is
exhibiting the same error message (although no mention of the eth0
interface, we do also use the eepro100):

Oct 31 12:12:14 mail-client kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for
sendmail
...
Oct 31 12:12:14 mail-client last message repeated 2 times
Oct 31 12:12:14 mail-client kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for
in.pop3d
...
Oct 31 12:12:14 mail-client kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for
klogd...

Oct 31 12:12:23 mail-client last message repeated 14 times
Oct 31 12:12:23 mail-client kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for
sendmail
...
Oct 31 12:12:23 mail-client last message repeated 15 times
Oct 31 12:12:23 mail-client kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for
syslogd.
..
Oct 31 12:12:23 mail-client last message repeated 11 times
Oct 31 12:12:23 mail-client kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for
in.pop3d
...
Oct 31 12:12:23 mail-client last message repeated 15 times
Oct 31 12:12:23 mail-client kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for
sendmail
...
Oct 31 12:12:24 mail-client last message repeated 30 times
Oct 31 12:12:24 mail-client kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for
kupdate.
..
Oct 31 12:12:24 mail-client kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for
sendmail
...
Oct 31 12:12:25 mail-client last message repeated 42 times
Oct 31 12:12:25 mail-client kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for
kupdate.
..
Oct 31 12:12:25 mail-client kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for
sendmail
...
Oct 31 12:12:26 mail-client last message repeated 60 times
Oct 31 12:12:26 mail-client kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for
kupdate.

... etc etc

To agree with Octave, this only appears to happen under load - over weekends
(our quiet periods) the syslog is nearly empty. In extremis it has been
necessary to reboot the machine by kicking the power button.

Any thoughts appreciated.

Running Redhat 6.2 (not my choice) on a single-processor PIII-650 with 128MB
RAM and 256MB swap. Load average is usually around the 0.3 mark. Kernel
(2.2.17) was compiled from source.

I'm not subscribed to the list, but I guess this is the only way to find an
answer - can you please copy me in on any replies. Thanks :0

Geoff

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* RE: 2.2.17 & VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed / eepro100
@ 2000-11-14 11:47 Heupink, Mourik Jan C.
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From: Heupink, Mourik Jan C. @ 2000-11-14 11:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 'Alan Cox'; +Cc: linux-kernel

Hello.

Short mail, because I really shouldn't be talking to Alan Cox himself, as
you are a real guru, and I'm really not. ;-)

Anyway: about this message, posted a while ago:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Cox [mailto:alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk]
> To: geoff@farmline.com
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: 2.2.17 & VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed / eepro100
> 
> > > VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for httpd...
> > > VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for httpd...
> 
> These if they are odd ones and the box continues are fine, if 
> you get masses
> of them then probably not
> 
> > (our quiet periods) the syslog is nearly empty. In extremis 
> it has been
> > necessary to reboot the machine by kicking the power button.
> 
> Are you using software raid ?

I have the same problem, and i AM running software raid. Therefore I would
very much like to know why you asked that question. For now, i changed back
to kernel 2.2.15, hoping that this solves the problems. But if they are
related to the raid stuff, please give me some pointers where to continue to
read, or what to do now.

(last two weeks two freezes) (so: nt runs more stable than linux at the
moment ;-))
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