[ale] VM problems

[Jeff Hubbs]

Geoffrey -

This has happened to me just recently.  I could just barely do anything and
the drives were running continuously.  I tried to run top and I saw that I
was out of swap - I have two swap partitions and 128MB RAM!  I was also able
to tell that Netscape appeared to be responsible.

This was under Mandrake 7.1 and whatever version of Netscape comes with
that.  I will at some point change distros and update Netscape, but I tell
you, I'm about ready to switch browsers (although I would continue to use
Messenger for e-mail).

- Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wandered Inn [mailto:esoteric at atlnet.com]
> Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 1:39 PM
> To: ALE
> Subject: [ale] VM problems
> 
> 
> Twice in the last week I've received some disconcerting messages from
> the kernel as follows:
> 
> Aug 25 09:33:32 denali kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for
> klogd...
> 
> Five or six in a row this morning.  Appears my kernel's 
> having problems
> with memory management.  The first time this appeared to happen, my
> machine locked up tight.  Couldn't telnet, ping, nothing.  No toggling
> of keyboard leds.  Hard reboot.  Anyway, it appears that at that time
> Netscape had gone nuts and just started eating up memory.
> 
> Anyone seen anything like this before?  Have any insights?
> 
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> Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at denali.atlnet.com
> 
> Microsoft != Innovation
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