Looks like you're out of swap space or memory to me, I guess you'll probably have more luck posting this to the kernel-list, because this is a kernel problem. You could try to create a (bigger) swap partition, perhaps that will work.
Ron Rademaker On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Morten Liebach wrote: > Hello Debians. > > I seem to have some Kernel VM problems, but I'm not sure why. > > Sometimes I see my machine nearly freezing, and then becoming good > after a minute or two. > In the logs I get up to several hundred lines like these: > > Aug 20 18:22:13 pc89225 kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for gpm... > Aug 20 18:22:16 pc89225 kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for gpm... > Aug 20 18:22:18 pc89225 kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for gpm... > Aug 20 18:22:18 pc89225 kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for > ssh-agent... > Aug 20 18:22:23 pc89225 kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for > syslog-ng... > Aug 20 18:22:55 pc89225 kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for > syslog-ng... > Aug 20 18:22:57 pc89225 kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for gpm... > Aug 20 18:22:57 pc89225 kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd... > > Aug 20 18:22:57 pc89225 kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for init... > Aug 20 18:22:57 pc89225 kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for > syslog-ng... > > etc., etc. ... > > (it usually repeats the same message more often than this example). > > I do see ``kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for <something>...'' > in the logs from time to time, but they are most often only one or two > at a time, and they aren't felt at all. > > My kernel is a selfcompiled (with make-kpkg) 2.2.17pre6 kernel from the > kernel-source deb, no extra patches. > > I usually happens when I fetch mail with fetchmail, invoking exim, > procmail and lbdb in the process, but it seems to be all running > programs that's affected by it. > > It's annoying, though it only happens once or twice per week, I'd like > if there were some kind of fix. > > I hope someone more knowledgeable than me knows what's going on, it > might be a suptle misconfiguration in my kernelconfig ... > > Kind regards > Morten > > -- > UNIX, reach out and grep someone! > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >