kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
>on Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 11:14:00PM +0000, Colin Watson
>([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>> Bah. Try 2.2.{15,16} or 2.4.0-testsomething. :) I'm running 2.4.0-test6
>> here with no problems (um, apart from the annoying truncate() bug that
>> occasionally bites INN, but I know that's fixed in later kernels).
>
>No, don't.
>
>2.2.14 - 2.2.16 have remote root exploits.

Forgot about that, sorry. AFAIK 2.4 is fine, but I haven't read
linux-kernel since Friday.

>The VM message appears annoying, when it occurs, but not fatal, usually.
>In my experience.

It's (at least) been known to cause 10- to 15-minute freezes, and I
think signals some VM instability beyond that.

>Incidentally, does anyone have a good pointer to specific mentions of
>this error message?  I've been rolling through linuxhq and Kernel
>Traffic, can't find anything since August or so.

I know it was reported in
http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0010.3/0428.html; I'm sure
it should have been reported before that, but the quick searches I did
didn't turn up anything useful.

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Colin Watson                                     [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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