Re: patch for 2.1.51 kswapd -- please test

Michael Harnois (mharnois@sbt.net)
25 Aug 1997 15:18:17 -0500


Bill Hawes <whawes@star.net> writes:

> It looks like the freeze problem reported by Mike Galbraith was caused
> by kswapd endlessly looping, unable to make progress towards the
> free_pages_high goal.

Well, I'll bet that was it. I recompiled with your patch, rebooted,
and just got this message:

Aug 25 15:16:18 mharnois kernel: kswapd: failed after 201 tries, got 74 of 128

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