Re: 2.2.16 - Crash

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Sat Aug 05 2000 - 17:17:11 EDT

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    On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Alan Cox wrote:

    > > 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 depends on what resource limits you set. Linux does overcommit.

    I don't think that's the problem with the typical
    "VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed" message. It just
    means do_try_to_free_pages didn't find a page to
    free. This can happen too in situations where there
    _is_ backing store available (which is a bug, imho).

    regards,

    Rik 

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