Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: vm problems | Date | Thu, 30 Aug 2001 00:02:27 +0200 |
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On August 29, 2001 01:47 pm, Gergely Madarasz wrote: > On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 01:14:19PM +0200, Gergely Madarasz wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I get hundreds of this error message: > > > > __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed. > > > > The machine is an IBM x250 with 4G ram, the kernel is vanilla 2.4.9 and > > 2.4.9-ac3, no swap, running bonnie++. When the memory fills up with cache, > > I start receiving the error message. > > actually I thought I was running 2.4.9-ac3, but no, and I see the message > is commented out in 2.4.9-ac3. Does this mean that it doesn't mean > anything serious? Some of my processes were stuck in uninterruptible > sleep, I couldn't even shutdown correctly, so there are some problems.
Please try it again with this patch so we can see what kind of allocation is failing:
--- 2.4.9.clean/mm/page_alloc.c Thu Aug 16 12:43:02 2001 +++ 2.4.9/mm/page_alloc.c Mon Aug 20 22:05:40 2001 @@ -502,7 +502,8 @@ } /* No luck.. */ - printk(KERN_ERR "__alloc_pages: %lu-order allocation failed.\n", order); + printk(KERN_ERR "__alloc_pages: %lu-order allocation failed (gfp=0x%x/%i).\n", + order, gfp_mask, !!(current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC)); return NULL; } - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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