On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues wrote:
> Marcelo Tosatti writes:
> > Maybe the machine has not really crashed, but the nasty shrink_mmap loop
> > is hitting you.
>
> Could be, it looks like a loop. Usually I'm inside X and can't even
> switch to the console (or change desktops) to look at the error
> messages...
>
> By "crash" I meant that I had to press the reset button.
Exactly. The patch I sent you should fix this.
>
> > Could you please try the attached patch and report results?
>
> I compiled a new kernel (btw, I didn't `make clean', I just patched
> filemap.c and did a `make zImage', I remember it used to be a no-no
> with 2.0, is it ok w/ 2.2?) and tried:
>
> $ perl -e 'while (1) { $a[$i++] = 1 }' &
>
> When the swap was exhausted, the behaviour was:
>
> 1) Console: perl was killed with an `out of memory' message.
>
> 2) Console with X, netscape and emacs running: I still get
>
> VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for ...
>
> repeatedly.
This is expected behaviour. The patch I sent you will avoid the crash,
not the "VM: do_try_to..." messages.
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