Nathan E Norman writes: > I'm sure I saw a post about this in the past few weeks. I've got a P-90 > with 24 MB of RAM that I'm trying to make useful ... so I rounded up a > bunch of SCSI drives to toss in it. However, when I try to make > filesystems on the 2 gig drives, it says it can't get a free page, and > freezes. When formatting a 1 gig drive, it says it can't get a free > page, but manages to recover and finish the filesystem (As far as I can > tell). > > Let's see, important info ... we're running Debian 1.3, kernel 2.0.30. > The drives are a mixed bag ... Conner and Quantum for the 2 gigs, IBM > and HP for the 1 gigs. There's also a Seagate and a Quantum in the > machine (yes, it's a junkman's special). I'm sure I've forgotten some > pertinent info ... > > Any ideas? > > -- > Nathan Norman : Hostmaster CFNI : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key and other stuff > Key fingerprint = CE 03 10 AF 32 81 18 58 9D 32 C2 AB 93 6D C4 72 > --
This seems to be a problem with the 2.0.30 kernels. Try using the 2.0.29 kernel in the latest boot-disk set (dated 1997-05-28 or later). You can also try increasing /proc/sys/vm/freepages values; this apparently raises the threshold before the paging problems of the '30 kernel surfaces. HTH, Norris -- Norris Preyer (541) 962-3310 (office) Physics Program (541) 962-3873 (fax) Eastern Oregon University [EMAIL PROTECTED] La Grande, OR 97850 http://physics.eou.edu/npreyer.html *** Linux, for those with an IQ above 95 *** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
