> > 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...
>
> Which kernel do you use ? Is it the latest 2.2.17 :
> kernel-2.2.17-1mdk.i586.rpm ?
that's the one...
> Having a look into /var/log, I don't have any message like "VM:
> do_try_to_free_pages failed for"
> since the 1st September.
Well... I do ;-)
> For me, memory management is OK in current kernel, but as I have
> 384 MB, swapping does not occur often (if never).
I only have 128Mb in my intel box, swapping does occur and I don't mind
that it does.
> I just tried to force the kernel to swap (jbuilder + netscape x 10 +
> huge images + staroffice + etc.) and it
> did not collapse, and I got no VM messages in log files.
Remove some memory and try a bit harder? ;-)
Updating rpm's with autorpm seems to be quite destructive on my box...
Anyway, whatever happens, as long as there is swapspace available, the
kernel should not display those messages. Things will get slow, but
stuff shouldn't start crashing.
> As I did not stress my machine between late august and the 1st
> september, I think there has been an improvement between
> kernel-2.2.17-0xxmdk and kernel-2.2.17-1mdk.i586.rpm, making VM
> messages disappear.
I admit that it's getting better (it used to lock my box solid) but it's
not entirely gone (yet).
Stefan
