On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm getting
>
> VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for ... (smbd, XFree, etc, etc)
>
> I compiled the kernel with gcc version 2.95.2, it's running on a
> Celeron (Mendocino) with 64MB RAM, 128 MB swap.
>
> This mainly happens in OOM situations (eg, a bug in a script exhausted
> the swap and crashed the machine), but today it crashed during normal
> desktop usage (just running Netscape, a huge memory hog, btw).
Maybe the machine has not really crashed, but the nasty shrink_mmap loop
is hitting you.
Could you please try the attached patch and report results?
Thanks!
--- mm/filemap.c.orig Fri Jul 21 07:18:21 2000
+++ mm/filemap.c Fri Jul 21 07:31:31 2000
@@ -179,8 +179,6 @@
if ((gfp_mask & __GFP_DMA) && !PageDMA(page))
continue;
- count--;
-
/*
* Is it a page swap page? If so, we want to
* drop it if it is no longer used, even if it
@@ -226,7 +224,7 @@
return 1;
}
- } while (count > 0);
+ } while (--count > 0);
return 0;
}
-
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