On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Peter Bornemann wrote:
> This I found in /var/log/warn after some work with the gimp:
>
> Jun 23 23:33:56 eduard kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd...
> Jun 23 23:33:56 eduard last message repeated 2 times
> Jun 23 23:43:56 eduard kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd...
> Jun 24 01:11:00 eduard kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd...
> Jun 24 01:11:38 eduard last message repeated 9 times
>
> The last two messages are the result of a test with a 100MB-image scan
> (xsane). Memory was never really tight, 250 MB of 256 MB RAM were used
> and about 20 MB of 350 MB swap (number increasing to about 60 MB). The
> system froze up for a moment, even the mouse did not respond. After
> that, gimp crashed with following message:
>
> peter@eduard:~ > Gdk-ERROR
> **: X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
>
> ** WARNING **: script-fu: wire_read: unexpected EOF
>
> [1]+ Exit 1 gimp
>
> This has never happened before. 2.2.15 was a little funny and froze up
> sometimes for several seconds, but did not crash gimp. This is on an
> Athlon 700 with an Asus K7V board.
>
> VM seems to be in rather bad shape now.
Could you please try the same test with 2.2.17pre4?
Thanks!
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