22-jul patch: async pages 0 kB warning

Hartmut Niemann (niemann@cip.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de)
Tue, 29 Jul 1997 12:29:14 +0200 (MSZ)

Werner,
I ran Bernhard Heidegger's memory consumer claiming 20 MB
and a concurrent make -j zImage, both in endless loops, on a 32 MB PPro
with your jul-22 patch to 2.0.31pre2, and got

Jul 29 11:46:02 eas5 kernel: try_to_free_page: physical ram 32768kB, min pages 256kB
Jul 29 11:46:03 eas5 kernel: try_to_free_page: free pages 256kB, async pages 0kB
Jul 29 11:48:55 eas5 kernel: try_to_free_page: physical ram 32768kB, min pages 256kB
Jul 29 11:48:57 eas5 kernel: try_to_free_page: free pages 256kB, async pages 0kB
Jul 29 11:53:59 eas5 kernel: try_to_free_page: physical ram 32768kB, min pages 256kB
Jul 29 11:54:01 eas5 kernel: try_to_free_page: free pages 256kB, async pages 0kB
Jul 29 12:01:02 eas5 kernel: try_to_free_page: physical ram 32768kB, min pages 256kB
Jul 29 12:01:02 eas5 kernel: try_to_free_page: free pages 256kB, async pages 0kB
Jul 29 12:03:26 eas5 kernel: try_to_free_page: physical ram 32768kB, min pages 256kB
Jul 29 12:03:26 eas5 kernel: try_to_free_page: free pages 256kB, async pages 0kB
Jul 29 12:05:25 eas5 kernel: try_to_free_page: physical ram 32768kB, min pages 256kB
Jul 29 12:05:26 eas5 kernel: try_to_free_page: free pages 256kB, async pages 0kB

Load was between 9 and 24 that time. The system seems healthy and alive.
Is that normal/intended behaviour?

(No messages were generated when running make zImage (no -j) and the 20 MB
program).
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