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Kernel 1.3.34: Cannot get a free page.

Kernel 1.3.34: Cannot get a free page.

Post by Uli Upho » Tue, 17 Oct 1995 04:00:00



Hi,

Running kernel 1.3.34 I noticed the following:
Starting XF86 and some memory consuming programs suddelnly
the processing of these programs stopped and connecting
the X-server was not possible any more. I was able to shut
down the X-server, but the only interesting message in
/usr/adm/messages was kernel: couldn' get a free page.

Has anybody found similar behaviour ?
Any hints about possible causes ?
What does the message really mean ?

Greetings

Uli

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Kernel 1.3.34: Cannot get a free page.

Post by Uli Upho » Wed, 18 Oct 1995 04:00:00



> I have booted 1.2.13 and have had no problems.  1.3.33 was the only 1.3
> kernel I've tried and the only kernel that has caused this problem.

Yes, I tried 1.3.32 last night and everything went fine. No lockups
no unusual messages in /var/adm.

Knowing not so much about the paging
mechanism I tried a very conservative bios memory timing, but
the described lockup behaviour reappeared in 1.3.34.

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1. ppp on kernel 1.3.34

Just to warm your heart - you are not alone in this world who is getting this
message.
My misery went further, though - I've got this message the first time I have
rebooted with the new kernel.
The next time, the machine just hangs stating it has started sendmail...

2. squid under solaris 2.5.1 consume a lot of file descriptors?

3. QIC-117 & Kernel 1.3.34

4. illegal port command

5. "Unable to obtain scsi_result buffer" [1.3.34]!!!

6. Reading is much more interesting than TV (0982/1708)

7. pppd 2.2.0a crashing under Linux 1.3.34

8. Konqueror crashes

9. Linux 1.3.34 and PPP 2.2 - Problem

10. Sound troubles...[1.3.34]

11. 1.3.34 Clearing enet_statistics missing.

12. FTAPE: Not in 1.3.34 or 1.3.35?

13. 1.3.34 = FAST!


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