Re: Final pre-2.0.31.. Expect this to be same as real 2.0.31
Pavel Machek (pavel@Elf.mj.gts.cz)
Mon, 15 Sep 1997 13:40:58 +0200
> On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, Uwe Bonnes wrote:
>
> > Mark> Unfortunately it does have it. On an old i38640/8MB 10meg swap, it
> > Mark> still gives that message when compiling something large or exiting
> > Mark> X. It happens even though MM_DEBUG in mm/vmscan.c has been
> > Mark> undefined. On a 32meg P150 nothing like this happens even on a
> > Mark> heavily loaded system.
> >
> > Could it be that you really run out of memory? Did you try with more swap?
> yes, I tried. Doesn't help. I increased the swap to 80megs and no cure.
> Besides, I monitor the free memory usage and the swap was in 90% free when the
> message appeared. It happens _all the time_ when ex2fsck (statically compiled)
> 1.10 forces the disk check on startup, then gpm is loaded, then all the
> daemons are loaded (in this case only syslogd, klogd and inetd), then
> SVGATextMode sets high-res mode (100x32) and right before the login prompt
> appears, theres "cannot get a free page". It was hapenning even with 80megs
> swap. Nothing like this happens on my "normal" machine (with 32megs of RAM
> and 32meg swap). I'm about to try the new patches from Dr.Werner Fink today
> and I'll see whether that helps or not.
Could not get a free page is ok, does not depend on swap space free
and does not mean anything bad.
Pavel
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