debian 2.2 CRASHES often easily

2000-11-22 Thread Folken Lacour
I'm a Linux newbie, but I know this should not be happening. I can't get an uptime 36 hours -- Linux just freezes in X. Occassionally, I'm able to switch over to another VC, where I see VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for application ... (There are about 10 lines for each application

debian 2.2 CRASHES often easily

2000-11-22 Thread Tom Huckstep
Folken Lacour writes: I'm a Linux newbie, but I know this should not be happening. I can't get an uptime 36 hours -- Linux just freezes in X. Occassionally, I'm able to switch over to another VC, where I see VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for application ... I had exactly this

Re: debian 2.2 CRASHES often easily

2000-11-22 Thread Moritz Schulte
Folken Lacour [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for application ... Known problem in Linux 2.2.16 and also 2.2.17pre's. Upgrading to Linux 2.2.17 or even Linux 2.2.18pre should solve the problem. moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian 2.2 CRASHES often easily

2000-11-22 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 07:22:06PM +, Tom Huckstep wrote: I think this is your problem. Adding 128 M of swap to 64 M of physical memory solved it for me. Unfortunately, unless you have some free space on your hard disk(s) you are going to have to delete a partition and recreate _it_ and

Re: debian 2.2 CRASHES often easily

2000-11-22 Thread Neil Darlow
Hi Folken, The do_try_to_free_pages failures are symptoms of a bug in the 2.2.17pre6 kernel that ships with 2.2. I have a K6/2 233 machine with 64M RAM which displays these errors occasionally. They don't appear to be fatal but could be leaking memory? I also have a 486SLC 33 machine with 8M