Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 5 Aug 2000 18:17:11 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.16 - Crash |
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On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > i have also been getting these it appears to be when the system > > runs out of memory. i though that this was not meant to happen > > under linux > > It depends on what resource limits you set. Linux does overcommit.
I don't think that's the problem with the typical "VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed" message. It just means do_try_to_free_pages didn't find a page to free. This can happen too in situations where there _is_ backing store available (which is a bug, imho).
regards,
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