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From: Ville Herva <vherva@mail.niksula.cs.hut.fi>
To: Linux-Kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Matthias.Andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de
Subject: Re: [2.2.18] VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 14:19:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001220141945.F1265@niksula.cs.hut.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001220130259.A9659@emma1.emma.line.org>
In-Reply-To: <20001220130259.A9659@emma1.emma.line.org>; from matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de on Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 01:03:00PM +0100

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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  reply	other threads:[~2000-12-20 12:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-12-20 12:03 Matthias Andree
2000-12-20 12:19 ` Ville Herva [this message]
2000-12-20 13:13 ` Alan Cox
2000-12-20 15:01   ` Matthias Andree
2000-12-20 20:56 ` Chris Mason

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