Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Jul 1997 13:01:21 +0200 | From | "Dr. Werner Fink" <> | Subject | Re: 22-jul patch: async pages 0 kB warning |
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> 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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