Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 26 Apr 2001 08:09:06 -0400 (EDT) | From | Feng Xian <> | Subject | Re: __alloc_pages: 4-order allocation failed |
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On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > > On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, 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? > > Feng, > > Which apps are you running when this happens ?
It looks like the X consumes most of the memory (almost used up all the physical memory, more than 100M), it uses NVidia driver. I was also running pppoe but that took less memory.
> > Thanks > >
-- Feng Xian
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