Re: lot of VM problem with 2.4.23

[Mike Fedyk]

On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 09:03:44AM +0200, Ville Herva wrote:
> BTW, I have a box with 128MB ram and 512MB swap running 2.4.21-jam1 (it has
> the -aa vm). I can't shut it down cleanly, because trying it goes into
> endless loop trying to free memory when turning off swap. Nothing but
> alt-sysrq-b seems to work.
> 
> I don't know if there is a kernel memory leak, since all user level
> processes should be killed at that point, right? Unfortunately I didn't have
> time to dig deeper, as the box is in (sort of) production.

Maybe, it depends on your init scripts.  Does your distribution do a kill -9
of all processes before turning off swap?
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