On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Adam Heath wrote:
>
> >VM: do_try_to_free_pages: procmail (or something very close)
>
> likely to be:
>
> VM: killing ...
Nope, that it wasn't. I wasn't sure about the 2nd :. There was definately no
killing word anywhere in the message.
It wasn't flooding the console, but it was a little faster than every second.
> There was a potential oom deadlock in getblk that is been fixed in 2.2.16.
> I just hope you hit that one. Spawning kdb and getting stack traces for
> the stuck tasks is very handy for debugging such cases.
The machine runs 2.2.16. Are you saying the bug was fixed in .16, or it
exists in .16?
Running kdb on a dead machine(I couldn't even connect to it over a directly
connected serial port) is kinda difficult.
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