Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Apr 2001 08:11:09 -0400 (EDT) | From | Feng Xian <> | Subject | Re: __alloc_pages: 4-order allocation failed |
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Thanks for the suggestion. but where to get pre-2.4.4 kernel? when I looked into the kernel traffic mail list, peoples are talking about 2.4.4, but i checked kernel.org, the lastest one i found is 2.4.3
regards,
Alex
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Mark Hahn wrote:
> > I am running linux-2.4.3 on a Dell dual PIII machine with 128M memory. > > 2.4.3 has many known flaws; why not try a pre-2.4.4 kernel? > > > __alloc_pages: 4-order allocation failed. > > these happen when someone tries to allocate large contiguous blocks. > > > and sometime the system will crash. I looked into the memory info, > > there still has some free physical memory (20M) left and swap space is > > almost not in use. (250M swap) > > your ram is fragmented; it's the contiguity that is causing the failure. > > > I didn't have this problem when I ran 2.4.0 (I even didn't see it on > > 2.4.2) could anybody tell me what's wrong or where should I look into this > > problem? > > you can simply perturb ram (flush, etc), or use a newer kernel. >
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