Re: strange messages from the kernel: VM: do_try...

From: Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Date: Tue Jun 13 2000 - 10:20:11 EST


On Tue, 13 Jun 2000 narancs1@externet.hu wrote:

>Dear Developers/Programmers!
>
>I get these messages on the root console:
>
>VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd...
>VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for syslog-ng...
>VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for rxvt...

some mess happened in 2.2.16 memory balancing, just read this code in
page_alloc.c and enjoy:

                /* Do we have to help kswapd or can we proceed? */
                if (nr_free_pages < (freepages.low + freepages.low) / 2) {
                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Andrea

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