From: miquels@cistron.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Looking for better 2.2-based VM (do_try_to_free_pages fails, machine hangs)
Date: 1 Nov 2000 13:39:36 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8tp6eo$9l1$1@enterprise.cistron.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001101133307.A10265@bylbo.nowhere.earth>
In article <20001101133307.A10265@bylbo.nowhere.earth>,
Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org> wrote:
>Using a 2.2.17 kernel I often experience problems where I get messages like
>"VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for <some process>", and the machine hangs
>until the VM can recover, which sometimes takes too long for me to wait. I
>suppose that the problem is similar sometimes when I get a frozen system
>under X, but can't see the kernel messages then.
I'm seeing the same on some machines. Running several instances of
bonnie on a dual SMP Intel with a DAC 1164 raid controller would
kill the machine in a few hours. However it has been running several
bonnies now without a hitch for 2 days, on 2.2.18pre18
Mike.
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-11-01 12:33 Looking for better 2.2-based VM (do_try_to_free_pages fails, machine hangs) Yann Dirson
2000-11-01 11:41 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2000-11-01 16:43 ` Yann Dirson
2000-11-01 16:48 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-11-01 16:59 ` Rik van Riel
2000-11-01 21:03 ` Yann Dirson
2000-11-01 21:00 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-11-01 22:20 ` Yann Dirson
2000-11-06 21:56 ` Yann Dirson
2000-11-06 21:48 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-07 20:48 ` Yann Dirson
2000-11-03 15:24 ` Ingo Oeser
2000-11-03 19:06 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2000-11-02 2:15 ` J . A . Magallon
2000-11-02 23:17 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-11-01 13:39 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg [this message]
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