Re: Looking for better 2.2-based VM (do_try_to_free_pages fails, machine hangs)

From: Yann Dirson (ydirson@altern.org)
Date: Tue Nov 07 2000 - 15:48:08 EST


On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 02:48:27PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> Yann Dirson wrote:
> > Nov 5 22:36:17 bylbo nscd: 925: while accepting connection: Cannot allocate memory
> >
> > They usually appear at cron.daily time, although it looks like I kinda can
> > reproduce them. I'm still investigating and narrowing - they seem to avoid
> > me unfortunately :( Will launch a tracking job for the night, hopefully
> > I'll narrow to the single cron job this time.

Hm... 12h non-stop looping on the cron jobs and nothing in the logs.

Heisenbug :}

> > Anyone seen that ?
>
> I see it with sendmail all the time when the fs gets really busy, and
> memory gets low in
> box.

But if your memory gets low it seems at least less anormal... In my case it
occured at night when only the cron job was running.

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