On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 08:17:31PM +0200, Cristian Constantin wrote:
> hi!
> 
> i have upgraded recently to woody which provides:
> 
> xserver-xsun   3.3.6-11       X server for 8-bit Sun framebuffers
> 
> from time to time the xserver freezes and the hdd is heavly accessed;
> (i'm not having more than 3 or 4 netscape windows and an xemacs one...)
> i'm getting in the /var/log/messages something like:

How much memory do you have? Running X + Netscape + Xemacs is a sure way
to hit swap space (which it sounds like you are doing).

> Oct  4 18:13:52 xxx kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for ntpd...
> Oct  4 18:13:52 xxx kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for ntpd...
> Oct  4 18:15:20 xxx kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for sshd...

Kernel VM errors. What kernel version are you running?

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