[JDEV] do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd

Dennis Noordsij dennis.noordsij at wiral.com
Tue Nov 7 07:34:38 CST 2000


Hey,

I know this problem is probably not jabber specific, but it's still funny 
jabberd triggers this problem (do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd) on 
different systems after 1000+ users. Both systems are not out of memory, swap 
is not being hit.

It's more likely a tuning thing on my side, for example because of the 
spooling system used jabberd opens a file for every user etc (I did bump up 
/proc/sys/fs/file-max though).

I am using a stock 2.2.17 kernel, fresh from ftp.kernel.org, no patches at 
all.

(Btw the error causes jabberd to segfault).

Any comments? :-)

Regards,
Dennis




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