Re: Looking for better 2.2-based VM (do_try_to_free_pages fails, machine hangs)

2000-11-07 Thread Yann Dirson
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 02:48:27PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > Yann Dirson wrote: > > Nov 5 22:36:17 bylbo nscd: 925: while accepting connection: Cannot allocate memory > > > > They usually appear at cron.daily time, although it looks like I kinda can > > reproduce them. I'm still investigat

Re: Looking for better 2.2-based VM (do_try_to_free_pages fails, machine hangs)

2000-11-06 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Yann Dirson wrote: > > Nov 5 22:36:17 bylbo nscd: 925: while accepting connection: Cannot allocate memory > > They usually appear at cron.daily time, although it looks like I kinda can > reproduce them. I'm still investigating and narrowing - they seem to avoid > me unfortunately :( Will la

Re: Looking for better 2.2-based VM (do_try_to_free_pages fails, machine hangs)

2000-11-06 Thread Yann Dirson
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 10:00:02PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 10:03:27PM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 02:59:01PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > > Andrea wrote: > > > (btw, make sure you're using the -7 revision of the VM-global patch, as it

Re: Looking for better 2.2-based VM (do_try_to_free_pages fails,machine hangs)

2000-11-03 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Ingo Oeser wrote: > On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 10:03:27PM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 02:59:01PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > it appears there has been amazingly little research on this > > > subject and it's completely unknown which approach will

Re: Looking for better 2.2-based VM (do_try_to_free_pages fails, machine hangs)

2000-11-03 Thread Ingo Oeser
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 10:03:27PM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote: > On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 02:59:01PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote: > > it appears there has been amazingly little research on this > > subject and it's completely unknown which approach will work > > "best" ... or even, what kind of behavio

Re: Looking for better 2.2-based VM (do_try_to_free_pages fails, machine hangs)

2000-11-02 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 03:15:17AM +0100, J . A . Magallon wrote: > "Includes" means that the full patch is not included in pre18 ?. Only the strict bugfix broadcasted to l-k is been included in pre18. > So, will the VM-pre17 work with pre18 ?. It will generate a trivial reject but I just uploa

Re: Looking for better 2.2-based VM (do_try_to_free_pages fails, machine hangs)

2000-11-01 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Wed, 01 Nov 2000 17:48:16 Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > (btw, make sure you're using the -7 revision of the VM-global patch, as it > includes the same MM corruption bugfix that is been included into 18pre18) > > Andrea "Includes" means that the full patch is not included in pre18 ?. So, will

Re: Looking for better 2.2-based VM (do_try_to_free_pages fails, machine hangs)

2000-11-01 Thread Yann Dirson
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 10:00:02PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > A -7 to apply to 2.2.18pre17 and _previous_ releases is in the directory Argh !! Damned sort order - I thought pre9 was the latest :( Thanks, -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Why make M$-Bill richer & richer ? debian

Re: Looking for better 2.2-based VM (do_try_to_free_pages fails, machine hangs)

2000-11-01 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 10:03:27PM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote: > On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 02:59:01PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote: > > Andrea wrote: > > (btw, make sure you're using the -7 revision of the VM-global patch, as it > > includes the same MM corruption bugfix that is been included into 18pre

Re: Looking for better 2.2-based VM (do_try_to_free_pages fails, machine hangs)

2000-11-01 Thread Yann Dirson
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 02:59:01PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote: Andrea wrote: > (btw, make sure you're using the -7 revision of the VM-global patch, as it > includes the same MM corruption bugfix that is been included into 18pre18) Damn, I was using -6. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/peo

Re: Looking for better 2.2-based VM (do_try_to_free_pages fails,machine hangs)

2000-11-01 Thread Rik van Riel
On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 05:43:39PM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote: > > However, the OOM killer behaves in strange ways, it seems. In the 2 "make > > Fair enough as there isn't an oom killer in the kernel you're > running :). So it can kill unlucky tasks as

Re: Looking for better 2.2-based VM (do_try_to_free_pages fails, machine hangs)

2000-11-01 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 05:43:39PM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote: > However, the OOM killer behaves in strange ways, it seems. In the 2 "make Fair enough as there isn't an oom killer in the kernel you're running :). So it can kill unlucky tasks as well. Since nobody cares to implement it, for 2.4.x

Re: Looking for better 2.2-based VM (do_try_to_free_pages fails, machine hangs)

2000-11-01 Thread Yann Dirson
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 09:41:04AM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > VM-global It should fix your problem. Thanks for the hint, it works great indeed, I couldn't freeze the machine any more - at least the make process understood Ctrl-C. However, the OOM killer behaves in strange ways, it seems.

Re: Looking for better 2.2-based VM (do_try_to_free_pages fails,machine hangs)

2000-11-01 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Yann Dirson wrote: > Hi, > > Using a 2.2.17 kernel I often experience problems where I get messages like > "VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for ", and the machine hangs > until the VM can recover, which sometimes takes too long for me to wait. I > suppose that the problem

Re: Looking for better 2.2-based VM (do_try_to_free_pages fails, machine hangs)

2000-11-01 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Using a 2.2.17 kernel I often experience problems where I get messages like >"VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for ", and the machine hangs >until the VM can recover, which sometimes takes too long for me to wait. I >suppose

Looking for better 2.2-based VM (do_try_to_free_pages fails, machine hangs)

2000-11-01 Thread Yann Dirson
Hi, Using a 2.2.17 kernel I often experience problems where I get messages like "VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for ", and the machine hangs until the VM can recover, which sometimes takes too long for me to wait. I suppose that the problem is similar sometimes when I get a frozen system under