Memtest problem / my kernel question

[Torgo Jr]

On the machine which I've reported some strange problems 
before:  I ran "memtest 50000000", and the output is mostly 
just lines like:

VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd

The "kswapd" is also "rpc.nfsd" or "memtest" in a few 
places, but mostly "kswapd".  Like a good little hacker 
(wannabe) I figured that this is a kernel message and
found this message in /usr/src/linux/mm/vmscan.c.  Fine, 
but I'm no kernel guru, so the source doesn't make 
too much sense.  The machine is a K6-2 300 Mhz, 128M 
ram, using a stock Debian 2.2.17(pre) kernel.  For 
some reason I couldn't compile the kernel source a few 
weeks ago.  Since 2.2.17 is now released, I'll try this 
soon.

But.... given that my kernel is currently a "pre", could 
the "pre"-ness be giving me my occasional strange 
problems?  Those problems being after the machine has 
been up for a week or so, things randomly segfault (simple 
things like "ps" or "top").

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