[JDEV] do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd

[Jens Askengren]

On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 03:34:38PM +0200, Dennis Noordsij wrote:

> 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.

I remember seeing some discussion about out-of-memory-resolving on the Linux
kernel list recently. If it does happen when there is memory left, I suspect 
it might be a kernel bug.
 
Have look at the Linux kernel mailinglist archives, it might shred some
light on why this happens.


	-Jens