Initially I installed a slink on this box, and at the time I had 64 MB of RAM however I was unable to make a swap partition of 128 MB. I later added another 64 MB of RAM. I tried to resize my /home partition but something went wrong and I wound up reformatting the hard drive, and installed storm, then mandrake for a few weeks. Mandrake allowed me to make a swap partition of 128 MB. When I got the debian 2.2(potato) cd's, I reformatted and installed potato which is what I'm using now. The reason I was concerned is because I've noticed that after about 9-11 days of running this box crashes, and forces me to restarts. I was wondering if this might have been the problem.
debian kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd... This is the message that is generated after the crash. --- Nate Amsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > did you install this on debian 2.1? or anything > using the 2.0 kernel? > from what i remember this was a kernel 2.0 > limitation. 124MB > reported by the system is normal. 124*1024=126,976kB > , add > some more for the space the kernel takes up when it > loads into > memory and any memory used by modules when the > system loads > and you have 128MB. also bios settings such as > shadow can > effect how much memory is available. > > nate > > Denzil Kelly wrote: > > > > When I partitioned my hard drive, I noticed that I > was > > unable to make a swap partition of 128 MB. For > > whatever reason, the largest partition I was able > to > > make was 122 MB. Why is this? Also I've noticed > that > > all of my memory isn't detected either. Why is > this? I > > have 128 MB installed, but this is what is > reported by > > free > > > > total used free shared buffers > > cached > > Mem: 124 120 3 45 17 > 42 > > Swap: 122 0 122 > > Total: 246 120 125 > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of > Products. > > http://shopping.yahoo.com/ > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > ::: > ICQ: 75132336 > http://www.aphroland.org/ > http://www.linuxpowered.net/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/
