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SubjectRe: 22-jul patch: async pages 0 kB warning

> Werner,
> I ran Bernhard Heidegger's memory consumer claiming 20 MB
> and a concurrent make -j zImage, both in endless loops, on a 32 MB PPro
> with your jul-22 patch to 2.0.31pre2, and got
>
>
[...]

> Jul 29 12:05:26 eas5 kernel: try_to_free_page: free pages 256kB, async pages 0kB
>
> Load was between 9 and 24 that time. The system seems healthy and alive.
> Is that normal/intended behaviour?

This is the debug behaviour ... without this small hack in try_to_free_pages()
the "Couldnt't get free page" or a ooms() would be triggerd.

Werner

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