Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 26 Apr 2001 00:15:39 -0600 | From | "Jeff V. Merkey" <> | Subject | Re: __alloc_pages: 4-order allocation failed |
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I am seeing this as well on 2.4.3 with both _get_free_pages() and kmalloc(). In the kmalloc case, the modules hang waiting for memory.
Jeff
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:09:57PM -0400, Feng Xian wrote: > Hi, > > I am running linux-2.4.3 on a Dell dual PIII machine with 128M memory. > After the machine runs a while, dmesg shows, > > __alloc_pages: 4-order allocation failed. > __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed. > __alloc_pages: 4-order allocation failed. > __alloc_pages: 4-order allocation failed. > __alloc_pages: 4-order allocation failed. > __alloc_pages: 4-order allocation failed. > > > and sometime the system will crash. I looked into the memory info, > there still has some free physical memory (20M) left and swap space is > almost not in use. (250M swap) > > I didn't have this problem when I ran 2.4.0 (I even didn't see it on > 2.4.2) could anybody tell me what's wrong or where should I look into this > problem? > > Thanks, > > Alex > > -- > Feng Xian > > - > 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/ - 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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