[ale] VM problems

[Wandered Inn]

Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> 
> 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).

Well, don't rush out to upgrade Netscape assuming that will resolve the
problem.  I upgraded yesterday to 4.75 and it obviously didn't correct
the problem.

I've got a single swap and 128mb ram as well.

> 
> - 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?
> >
> > --
> > Until later: Geoffrey         esoteric at denali.atlnet.com
> >
> > Microsoft != Innovation
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Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at denali.atlnet.com

Microsoft != Innovation
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