Hi,
I'm writing a backup onto a mounted filessytem on a DVDRAM:
/dev/scd0 2361388 1136244 1103248 51% /cdrom
but this causes the machine with the DVDRAM to become very very slow
for longer and longer times.
/var/log/messages shows:
Jun 23 11:46:47 abraracourcix kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for squid...
Jun 23 11:46:47 abraracourcix last message repeated 15 times
Jun 23 11:46:47 abraracourcix kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for xntpd...
Jun 23 11:46:47 abraracourcix kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for tail...
Jun 23 11:46:47 abraracourcix last message repeated 6 times
Jun 23 11:46:47 abraracourcix kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for xntpd...
Jun 23 11:46:47 abraracourcix kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for named...
Jun 23 11:46:47 abraracourcix last message repeated 11 times
Jun 23 11:46:47 abraracourcix kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for xntpd...
Jun 23 11:46:47 abraracourcix kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for xntpd...
Jun 23 11:46:47 abraracourcix kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for tail...
The machine has 128Mb RAM:
abraracourcix /home/wolff> free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 127648 52388 75260 7744 25728 11612
-/+ buffers/cache: 15048 112600
Swap: 130532 29900 100632
.... and runs:
abraracourcix /home/wolff> cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.2.17pre4 (wolff@cave) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #4 Mon Jun 19 10:47:05 MEST 2000
Any ideas?
Roger.
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