Memtest problem / my kernel question

[Sean]

On 18 Sep 2000, Ben Pfaff wrote:

> Sean <picasso@madflower.com> writes:
> 
> > My money is still on a bad ram stick.
> 
> No, if the message that Alan reported from the VM is the only
> error, then that's normal for swapping environments.  It means
> that the kernel couldn't find as much free virtual memory as it
> needed.  This is usually when the kernel starts killing processes
> to free up memory.

I can buy into that. FYI its always a good idea to run completely bare
bones when doing software memory checks. They can only check "free/unused"
memory. I assume this is pretty much what the X86 memory Ben mentioned
does.