>
> All these processes lying around eating memory may be what causes the
> do_try_to_free_pages phenomenon. Yes, there's something wrong with his
> configuration, but that doesn't exclude the possibility of something being
> wrong with his system.
>
> This phenomenon has been witnessed by myself and Chip Salzenberg, I
> believe he posted something relevant to this a few days ago. Since
> 2.2.16,
>
My apologies...this was not quite right. The problem was observed on
kernels based on 2.2.17pre6 and 2.2.17pre10. See Chip Salzenberg's for
the details, it was his kernel + patches. I haven't checked kernels
before that until 2.2.14 based kernels.
Jason T. Collins
Software Engineer
VA Linux Systems
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