Re: Which kernel fixes the VM issues?

[Ville Herva]

On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 12:50:07PM +0100, you [Andre Tomt] claimed:
> > of the fuzz
> > I have relating to the VM: do_try_to_free_pages issue.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > About once a week I get the 'VM: do_try_to_free_pages ...' error and
> > eventually get a complete system lockup. And just this morning it
> > locked up
> > again, although this time with a 'VFS: LRU block list corrupted'
> > message in
> > the logs, which i'm assuming is related to the VM issue as well.
> 
> This issue is fixed in 2.2.18 AFAIK (never seen it since).
> 
> <snip>

Nope.

It's fixed 2.2.19pre2 (which includes the Andrea Arcangeli's vm-global-7
patch that (among other things) fixes this.)

You can also apply the vm-global-patch to 2.2.18 if you like.

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