out of memory?

From: Ketil Froyn (ketil@froyn.com)
Date: Fri Feb 16 2001 - 04:37:08 EST


Hi.

I'm getting lots of this on a computer:
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for myprog.pl
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for myprog.pl
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for myprog.pl
....
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kupdate (just saw this once)

myprog is basically making lots of directories, and is not using lots of
memory. Here's the info from 'ps auxw':

USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 994 22.6 0.3 2568 364 tty1 R Feb15 230:40 perl -w myprog.pl

It doesn't seem like I'm out of memory:
$ cat /proc/meminfo
        total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 97730560 96149504 1581056 2125824 5447680 5115904
Swap: 68083712 35213312 32870400
MemTotal: 95440 kB
MemFree: 1544 kB
MemShared: 2076 kB
Buffers: 5320 kB
Cached: 4996 kB
SwapTotal: 66488 kB
SwapFree: 32100 kB
$ uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.2.18RAID #6 Wed Feb 14 19:15:49 CET 2001 \
i586 unknown

The kernel is compiled with the rh-7.0 kgcc (egcs-2.91.66), and I've
patched it to get raid 0.90 and reiserfs 3.5.29.

What's going on? How bad is this?

Ketil Froyn

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