Re: kswapd failure... is this normal?

Pavel Machek (pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Thu, 11 Sep 1997 18:22:24 +0200


> bash# tar -cvf /floppy/siab12.tgz
> shadow-ina-box-1.2/
> shadow-ina-box-1.2/
> shadow-ina-box-1.2/xlockmore-3.11.tar.gz
> kswapd: failed, got 160 of 280
> bash# echo $?
> 0
> bash#
>
> dmesg shows the error, it's logged in /var/adm/log/kernel (kern.*). I was
> only putting one file on the floppy. The tar completed successfully,
> errorlevel 0 and all.
>
> No failure second time. Should I ignore this as writing from vfat to
> floppy with nothing else running?

It means that you were temporary pretty low on memory. Ignore.

Pavel

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