Ho! stop. The "couldn't get a free page" is when kmalloc gets a request
that it has to pass on, and that this request couldn't get honoured. It
was requested at a level that didn't allow sleeping or even the sleeping
failed.....
> > - The unusable sluggishness of the machine is a bug.
>
> It was never intended to be something that you would run during normal
> usage, it's a shake down, tear the drives and controllers apart type test
> that should be run when you are aware of what these types of tests do to
> machine performance and are prepared to wait for it to finish before
> actually trying to do anything :)
Actually having several programs write like hell filling all available
memory with write-behind buffers is not that unlikely. The kernel
should somehow try to make this situation feel less sluggish.
Roger.