Hi
i have also been getting these it appears to be when the system
runs out of memory. i though that this was not meant to happen
under linux
it happens when overcommit is either on/off
i got around it by adding more swap space
but i would have though that the kernel should not
give out ram it does not have
cya
James
In local.kernel-list, you wrote:
>Hello!
>
>Yesterday all Services of my Server (web, ftp, pop, squid, ...) were not
>reachable, but "ping" worked.
>
>System:
>
>SuSE 6.3
>Kernel 2.2.16
>AMD K6-2 / 128 MB RAM
>running daemons: see "var/log/messages"
>
>
>thank you
>richard
>
>/var/log/messages:
>- ------------------
>Aug 4 23:46:27 eule popper[6840]: connect from 194.XXX.XXX.XXX
>Aug 4 23:52:04 eule named[131]: Cleaned cache of 39 RRsets
>Aug 4 23:56:20 eule kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for javac...
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for klogd...
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for klogd...
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for nscd...
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for javac...
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for squid...
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule kernel: o_try_to_free_pages failed for javac...
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for javac...
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule last message repeated 5 times
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for httpd...
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule last message repeated 7 times
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for cron...
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule last message repeated 7 times
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for syslogd...
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for klogd...
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule last message repeated 7 times
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for squid...
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule last message repeated 6 times
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for mysqld...
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule last message repeated 3 times
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for syslogd...
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule last message repeated 5 times
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for klogd...
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule last message repeated 6 times
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for squid...
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule last message repeated 4 times
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for sendmail...
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule last message repeated 3 times
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for cron...
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for cron...
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for xntpd...
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for httpd...
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule last message repeated 15 times
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for javac...
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule last message repeated 14 times
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for nscd...
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule last message repeated 13 times
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for klogd...
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule last message repeated 13 times
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for squid...
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule last message repeated 11 times
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for syslogd...
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule last message repeated 9 times
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for mysqld...
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule last message repeated 5 times
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for sendmail...
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule last message repeated 16 times
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for syslogd...
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule last message repeated 9 times
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd...
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for cron...
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule last message repeated 13 times
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for javac...
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule last message repeated 13 times
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for nscd...
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule last message repeated 12 times
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for httpd...
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule last message repeated 11 times
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for klogd...
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule last message repeated 10 times
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for squid...
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule last message repeated 9 times
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for mysqld...
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule last message repeated 9 times
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for squid...
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule last message repeated 5 times
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for klogd...
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule last message repeated 9 times
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd...
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for mysqld...
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for sendmail...
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule last message repeated 14 times
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for nscd...
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule last message repeated 13 times
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for javac...
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule last message repeated 12 times
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for httpd...
>Aug 4 23:56:41 eule last message repeated 11 times
>Aug 4 23:56:52 eule kernel: Unable to load interpreter /lib/ld-linux.so.2
>Aug 4 23:57:02 eule kernel: Unable to load interpreter /lib/ld-linux.so.2
>Aug 5 00:58:28 eule -- MARK --
>Aug 5 07:03:49 eule -- MARK --
>Aug 5 11:51:49 eule syslogd 1.3-3: restart.
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