Folken Lacour writes: > I'm a Linux newbie, but I know this should not be > happening. I can't get an uptime > 36 hours -- Linux > just freezes in X. Occassionally, I'm able to switch > over to another VC, where I see > VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for <application> ...
I had exactly this problem when I had no swap partition. > Adding Swap: 72288k swap-space (priority -1) > > Also, I've noticed that I always run out of swap > before RAM, does this mean I should add more swap? If > yes, how is this done? I think this is your problem. Adding 128 M of swap to 64 M of physical memory solved it for me. Unfortunately, unless you have some free space on your hard disk(s) you are going to have to delete a partition and recreate _it_ and a swap partition. You can use something like cfdisk. You might have used it when you installed Debian. Tom
