Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Roger Larsson <> | | Subject | Re: Upd: [PATCH NG] alloc_pages_limit & pages_min | | Date | Fri, 24 Aug 2001 12:28:13 +0200 |
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On Fridayen den 24 August 2001 11:25, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > On Thu, 23 Aug 2001 21:28:44 +0200 > > Roger Larsson <roger.larsson@norran.net> wrote: > > Riel convinced be to back off a part of the patch. > > Here comes an updated one. > > Hello Roger, > > this does not solve my problem with NFS-copies. Just for information. I > tried and did not work. Besides I expected the patch to make the free pages > pool somehow bigger during file-copies, but ended up with this situation: > > [snip] > > The MemFree isn't really a lot compared to inact_dirty. knfsd fails at > least.
Wait a minute - knfsd... hmm... Suppose knfsd allock without the wait flag - then it could cause this problems by itself...
> Aug 21 20:14:51 admin kernel: __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed > (gfp=0x20/0).
Who is doing thise allocs? Add a printout of current->pid with format %d I bet it is knfsd itself (or a driver it uses).
Another thing to try is to run with non kernel nfs...
/RogerL
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