Stephan Kulka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Felix Natter wrote: >> I get the above message on a tty >> (VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd) >> when there is much load on a debian 2.2 system. >> >> What exactly does it mean ? (not enough swap-space ?) >> Is there a way to avoid this ? > >I had the same problem (in fact I still have it sometimes) and I found >out that it is a known bug in debian (there is a bug filed).
More accurately, it's a known bug in the Linux kernel (specifically, version 2.2.17, I think, and possibly certain 2.4.0-test versions as well). I'm told 2.2.18 will fix it. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
