Re: debian 2.2 CRASHES often & easily

Hi Folken, The do_try_to_free_pages failures are symptoms of a bug in the 2.2.17pre6 kernel that ships with 2.2. I have a K6/2 233 machine with 64M RAM which displays these errors occasionally. They don't appear to be fatal but could be leaking memory? I also have a 486SLC 33 machine with 8M RAM

Re: debian 2.2 CRASHES often & easily

On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 07:22:06PM +, Tom Huckstep wrote: > 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_

Re: debian 2.2 CRASHES often & easily

Folken Lacour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for ... Known problem in Linux 2.2.16 and also 2.2.17pre's. Upgrading to Linux 2.2.17 or even Linux 2.2.18pre should solve the problem. moritz -- Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://hp9001.fh-bielefeld.de

debian 2.2 CRASHES often & easily

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 ... I had exactly this problem wh

debian 2.2 CRASHES often & easily

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 ... (There are about 10 lines for each application I'm running)