VM problem with 2.2.18 ?

From: James Stevenson (mistral@stev.org)
Date: Tue Mar 13 2001 - 18:26:35 EST


Hi

i had a small problem with a program i was running
which got stuck in a loop allocing memory by the time i
found out it was doing it these were appearing

 VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for ypbind...
 VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for syslogd...
 VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for klogd...
 VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for ypserv...
 VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for ypserv...
 VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for ypserv...
 VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for ypserv...
 VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for ypserv...
 VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for ypserv...
 VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for esd...
 VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for esd...
 VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for esd...
 VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for esd...
 VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for esd...
 VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for esd...
 VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for esd...
 VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for bash...
 VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for bash...
 VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for bash...
 VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for bash...
 VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for bash...
 VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for bash...
 VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for bash...
 VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for crond...
 VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for crond...
 VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for crond...
 VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for crond...
 VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for crond...

etc.. etc.. for many more processes
then it all ended in a hangup

i remember hacing these problems around 2.2.14/15 or so
then it never happened again until today

thanks
        James

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