Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 6 May 2002 07:18:32 +0200 | | From | Jurriaan on Alpha <> | | Subject | 2.5.13 error: kswapd: page allocation failure. order:0 mode:0x20 |
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Suddenly, after 36 hours uptime, the console was flooded with this message.
May 6 06:54:24 alpha -- MARK -- May 6 07:11:28 alpha kernel: apd: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20 May 6 07:11:28 alpha kernel: kswapd: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20 May 6 07:11:28 alpha last message repeated 296 times May 6 07:11:37 alpha kernel: x20 May 6 07:11:37 alpha kernel: ssh: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20 May 6 07:11:37 alpha last message repeated 314 times May 6 07:11:39 alpha kernel: apd: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20 May 6 07:11:39 alpha kernel: kswapd: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20 May 6 07:11:39 alpha last message repeated 296 times May 6 07:11:39 alpha kernel: ssh: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20 May 6 07:11:40 alpha last message repeated 73 times May 6 07:11:46 alpha kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped. May 6 07:11:46 alpha kernel: Kernel log daemon terminating. May 6 07:11:46 alpha exiting on signal 15 May 6 07:13:35 alpha syslogd 1.4.1#10: restart.
Given the fact that this alpha has 1.5 Gb memory and 2 Gb swap, I feel 'out-of-memory' shouldn't happen (I was running mutt, slrn, some ssh sessions - nothing big).
after reboot: MemTotal: 1553808 kB MemFree: 1397688 kB MemShared: 0 kB Buffers: 71584 kB Cached: 23848 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 25064 kB Inactive: 92616 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 1553808 kB LowFree: 1397688 kB SwapTotal: 2292720 kB SwapFree: 2292720 kB Dirty: 14760 kB Writeback: 0 kB
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