-------- Original Message -------- Subject: RE: clug Re: [Alug] "VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for nmbd" Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 11:05:59 -0000 From: Ian Wells I.Wells@tarragon-et.co.uk Reply-To: Ian Wells I.Wells@tarragon-et.co.uk To: "'Matthew Vernon'" matthew@sel.cam.ac.uk,Jenny_Hopkins@toby-churchill.com CC: main@lists.alug.org.uk, clug@ebi.ac.uk
Ian Wells wrote:
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Incidentally, when I've used SysRq I've found it needed enabling with an echo 1 >/proc/sys/kernel/sysrq on boot. Do it. It's invaluable when your machine goes tits up.
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Thanks Ian
That gets my tip of the day vote! Just checked and found that my Eridani Linux 6.3 systems ( Redhat 6.2 update based ) all have that unset.
Presumably it will be the same story for other default RedHat systems.
One more change to default init that's highly recommended...
--James