Re: try_to_unuse: entry xxx not in use

Chris Evans (chris@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Thu, 13 Aug 1998 18:14:57 +0100 (GMT)


On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Bill Hawes wrote:

> Trever Adams wrote:
>
> > I believe I had the above section of code from swapfile.c (lines 338 and
> > 339) show up on shutting down 2.1.115 the other day. I have never had
>
> This message indicates that the system might have lost track of a swap page
> -- when it came time to turn swap off, the swap map count indicated that the
> page was in use, but no task was found still using it.

Sorry I cant provide anything concrete but just to say this looks a real
problem because I can say "me too" -- shutting down my machine last night
I got a bunch of these. It had been lightly into swap due to KDE + gimp :)

Cheers
Chris

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