I've now looked, and it's obviously my error in -ac shmem_writepage:
patch below against 2.4.10-ac2, would apply equally to 2.4.9-ac16 on.
Hugh
--- 2.4.10-ac2/mm/shmem.c Mon Oct 1 21:36:28 2001
+++ linux/mm/shmem.c Mon Oct 1 21:41:00 2001
@@ -462,6 +462,7 @@
swap_list_unlock();
/* Add it back to the page cache */
add_to_page_cache_locked(page, mapping, index);
+ atomic_inc(&shmem_nrpages);
activate_page(page);
SetPageDirty(page);
error = -ENOMEM;
-
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