> > Colin Watson scripsit: > > >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. > > > > Well, It doesn't :) I have installed the 2.2.18 kernel on potato and > > still have this problem... And it does not seems so unharmfull to me. > > Sometime the box freeze, just as if I got a BSoD on a M$ machine! This > > happens a lot when I use memory-greedy applications, of course. > > > strange. on this box i'm writing this email i never experience this VM > problem (128MB ram, 6GB hd all for Linux, plus running helixcode and > mozilla and xchat) although on the other machine i installed 2.2 (96MB > ram, 4GB hd, running on console only) i get that VM error message for > "kupdate" and such. in short, it's not only because one uses greedy > apps but it could be hardware related. > > welp, that's my observation from here. > I can only second that. I have two boxes runninh with kernel 2.2.17 and on the first one I never had any problems of this kind. On the other it started some days ago (after running about 3 weeks) and appears now and then. I can find no regularities of any kind.
Stephan
