Re: Signal 7 and "Couldn't get a free page..."

Jason Flynn (flynnjs@mobile-systems.bt.co.uk)
Tue, 29 Apr 1997 12:00:15 +0000

> I get the "Couldn't get..." on many machines.
> Swap space never was exhausted. In fact, swap is ony rarely used. I never
> had these problems before. It started with 2.0.30.

Yes, likewise. I had 4 identical machines with uptimes of several
weeks without a fault under .29 but I've had plenty of 'CGFP'
messages and I've not even been hammering them.

> Kernel is plain 2.0.30 with Krzysztof Strasburger's memory leak patch
> applied.
Mine's almost plain 2.0.30 (with my bridging patch)

Jason
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