On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > I have a resonably new motherboard with 128 meg of memory. My swap space > is 100 meg. I just got a slew of messages at the console like: > > VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for WindowMaker... > VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for WindowMaker... > VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for WindowMaker... > VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for acroread... > VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for acroread... > > and even gpm complained when I tried to highlight the above text. > > Anyone have any ideas? > ok it's been said before, but: it's a problem with linux 2.2.17. upgrade to 2.2.19.
btw, though the messages are irritating, they are non-fatal. i had a 2.2.17 box with ~4 months of uptime that got that crap in the logs several times a day.