Re: pre-patch-2.0.31 try_to_free_page() messages

Michael Nelson (nelson@seahunt.imat.com)
Sun, 1 Jun 1997 03:07:49 -0700


On Jun 1, 11:44am, Peter Nilsson wrote:

> Yesterday I patched my 2.0.30 with pre-patch-2.0.31 (to get my new 3COM
> 900 working). Twice since then I have got "try_to_free_page: ... sleep
> instead of fail" messages. It happened when I ran fsck and another time
> when I did "find -name \*.c|xargs grep "try_to_free"" to locate the
> message in the kernel source.

I wonder why the "stable" version of the kernel (2.0) has had almost as
many patches as the "devel" (2.1) version, and it's still full of problems?

Michael

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