Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Sep 2005 19:59:59 +1000 | From | Nathan Scott <> | Subject | Re: Question about page allocation failure |
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On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 08:30:09AM +0200, Ruben Rubio Rey wrote: > Hi, > > Im getting an error: "perl5.8.5: page allocation failure. order:4, > mode:0x50". > > What does it means? > Is it dangerous? > What may I do to fix it? > > Im using kernel 2.6.9-1.667smp and XFS filesystem.
You have a _heavily_ fragmented file in an XFS filesystem... there's work underway to prevent this from happening, but for now you can run xfs_fsr to reduce fragmentation. XFS retries the allocation until it succeeds, so its far from optimal but not dangerous.
cheers.
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