Re: Memory problems in pre-2.0.31 still present

Trevor Johnson (trevor@jpj.net)
Thu, 8 May 1997 19:33:04 +0000 (Local time zone must be set--see zic manual pagetrevor@jpj.net


Hubert Mantel wrote:

> I'm booting a machine from floppy with mem=4M.

I tried booting my kswapd-less kernel with mem=4M, and it was fine until I
logged in, at which time the console was immediately spammed with zillions
of try_to_free_page messages which didn't stop until I rebooted (didn't
have to turn the reset switch this time :)). My login shell is linked with
libc6, whereas /bin/login and mingetty are linked with libc5.

May 8 12:18:34 topside kernel: try_to_free_page: state(0) stop(9)
i(-10651) sleep instead of fail
May 8 12:18:34 topside kernel: try_to_free_page: state(0) stop(9)
i(-10652) sleep instead of fail
May 8 12:18:34 topside kernel: try_to_free_page: state(0) stop(9)
i(-10653) sleep instead of fail
May 8 12:18:34 topside kernel: try_to_free_page: state(0) stop(9)
i(-10654) sleep instead of fail
May 8 12:18:34 topside kernel: try_to_free_page: state(0) stop(9)
i(-10655) sleep instead of fail
May 8 12:18:34 topside kernel: try_to_free_page: state(0) stop(9)
i(-8927) sleep instead of fail
May 8 12:18:34 topside kernel: try_to_free_page: state(0) stop(9)
i(-8928) sleep instead of fail
May 8 12:18:34 topside kernel: try_to_free_page: state(0) stop(9)
i(-8929) sleep instead of fail
May 8 12:18:34 topside kernel: try_to_free_page: state(0) stop(9)
i(-3682) sleep instead of fail
May 8 12:18:34 topside kernel: try_to_free_page: state(0) stop(9)
i(-3683) sleep instead of fail
May 8 12:18:34 topside kernel: try_to_free_page: state(0) stop(9)
i(-3684) sleep instead of fail
May 8 12:18:34 topside kernel: try_to_free_page: state(0) stop(9)
i(-3685) sleep instead of fail
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Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>