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On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:52:13 -0700, Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> wrote: > > > Not sure if the problem is caused by X or kernel, but this is what > > > > It seems to be the b44 driver doing a large huge order allocation. > > > > That driver only asks for (1536 + 30 + 64) bytes, so I suppose part of > > the problem is that SLAB is using an order 3 allocation to satisfy > > that. > The chip needs memory below 1G for DMA, perhaps low memory is getting > exhausted. The failure corresponds to memory pressure (from yum), but the real issue is the lack of order 3 areas. We're talking a 32KB chunk! Why would anyone need that much? Crazy! Apr 13 18:19:14 niphredil kernel: Xorg: page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x4020 I blame SLUB. Things like the above never happened with SLAB. -- Pete -- 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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