Hi,
I'm running the latest kernel & I'm still getting VM errors:
Sep 9 13:23:46 stefan kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for
kswapd...
Sep 9 13:23:46 stefan kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for
colorgcc...
Sep 9 13:24:32 stefan kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for
kswapd...
Sep 9 13:25:08 stefan kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for
kswapd...
Sep 9 14:01:00 stefan kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for
aspell...
Sep 9 14:01:01 stefan kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for
netscape-commun...
Sep 9 14:01:01 stefan kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for
aspell...
Sep 9 14:01:01 stefan kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for
aspell...
Sep 9 14:01:01 stefan kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for
kdeinit...
Sep 9 14:01:01 stefan kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for
aspell...
Sep 9 14:01:05 stefan kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for
artsd...
Sep 9 14:01:05 stefan kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for
aspell...
Sep 9 14:01:05 stefan kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for
automount...
Sep 9 14:01:05 stefan kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for
aspell...
Sep 9 14:01:07 stefan kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for
init...
Sep 9 14:01:07 stefan kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for
init...
Sep 9 14:01:07 stefan kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for
kdeinit...
Sep 9 14:01:07 stefan kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for
cc1...
Sep 9 14:01:07 stefan kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for
artsd...
The behaviour of the kernel seem a bit weird to me. Quite often I'm
loading it with work (2 rpm's rebuilding, autorpm running, netscape,
etc), and I'd expect the machine to start swapping. But it doesn't... It
takes a 300K - 2.5M of swap and continues going, and VM messages start
showing up.
Is this behaviour also "featured" in the default 2.2.17 kernel, or is
this a Mandrake "enhancement"?
Also, when updating packages that require the menu to be updated,
enlightenment and sawfish processes sudenly show up (in top). They also
have a huge ammount of memory (or something is wron with top), sometimes
150 - 200% of the memory (how can a process take 150 - 200% of the
mem??). The funny thing is, nobody is logged onto :0 of the box, and no
remote sessions with E or sawfish are being run...
Stefan
PS: building stock (kernel.org) 2.2.17 kernel now to start testing with
that.
