From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266674AbUHVMHH (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Aug 2004 08:07:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266683AbUHVMHH (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Aug 2004 08:07:07 -0400 Received: from the-village.bc.nu ([81.2.110.252]:38030 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266674AbUHVMHE (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Aug 2004 08:07:04 -0400 Subject: Re: Fwd: LowFree memory going down -server freezes From: Alan Cox To: Julia M Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20040821223551.67748.qmail@web41101.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040821223551.67748.qmail@web41101.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1093172695.24344.33.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 12:04:56 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sad, 2004-08-21 at 23:35, Julia M wrote: > I am using Linux version 2.4.9-e.3smp > (bhcompile@stripples.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version 2 > .96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.2 2.96-108.1)) #1 SMP > Fri May 3 16:48:54 EDT 2002 The Red Hat 7.x kernel is very very old and probably the best way to get the box happy is to run something modern on it - bugs get fixed by new versions and there have been a lot of those for the kernel since 2.4.9. If its Red Hat Enterprise Linux rather than RH 7.x you should probably ask on the Red Hat rhel lists because (out of neccessity) the 2.1 VM is very different to the base kernel and most of the folks who know and care about it probably live on the Red Hat list. Alan