Denzil Kelly wrote: > > 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...
from what i've heard on this list that error is a kernel bug. maybe a memory leak, but i must admit on all the systems i run linux on (about 40) i have not yet once experienced it. I suggest just adding more swap, or more memory, or something. try 2.2.18 if you haven't already it may fix it. i run everything from 2.2.5 to 2.2.17 ..never seen that error. of course i always am sure to have plenty of memory and plenty of swap. nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
