Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 25 Sep 2001 17:03:35 -0300 (BRT) | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | Re: Bad, bad, bad VM behaviour in 2.4.10 |
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Juan,
It is a known problem which we are looking into.
I need some information which may help confirm a guess of mine:
Do you have swap available ?
If so, there was available anonymous memory to be swapped out ?
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Juan wrote:
> Hi! > > My test is very simple. I have started X-Window and XMMS in order to > listen to some songs. Then, I have executed > > dd if=/dev/hdc1 of=/dev/null > > as root within a terminal, and I have got the following a few seconds > later: > > Sep 25 22:05:55 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation > failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60 > Sep 25 22:06:00 localhost last message repeated 2 times > Sep 25 22:06:00 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation > failed (gfp=0xf0/0) from c012ff60 > Sep 25 22:06:00 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation > failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60 > Sep 25 22:06:00 localhost last message repeated 2 times > Sep 25 22:06:00 localhost kernel: VM: killing process xmms > Sep 25 22:06:00 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation > failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60 > Sep 25 22:06:04 localhost last message repeated 11 times > Sep 25 22:06:04 localhost kernel: VM: killing process xmms > Sep 25 22:06:04 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation > failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60 > Sep 25 22:06:04 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation > failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60 > Sep 25 22:06:04 localhost kernel: VM: killing process kmix > Sep 25 22:06:04 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation > failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60 > Sep 25 22:06:04 localhost last message repeated 2 times > Sep 25 22:06:04 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation > failed (gfp=0xf0/0) from c012ff60 > Sep 25 22:06:04 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation > failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60 > Sep 25 22:06:04 localhost last message repeated 3 times > Sep 25 22:06:04 localhost kernel: VM: killing process gpm > Sep 25 22:06:05 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation > failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60 > Sep 25 22:06:06 localhost last message repeated 6 times > sep 25 22:06:06 localhost su(pam_unix)[2548]: session closed for user > root > Sep 25 22:06:06 localhost kernel: VM: killing process sendmail > Sep 25 22:06:07 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation > failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60 > Sep 25 22:06:07 localhost kernel: VM: killing process konsole > Sep 25 22:06:07 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation > failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60 > Sep 25 22:06:07 localhost kernel: VM: killing process named > Sep 25 22:06:07 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation > failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60 > Sep 25 22:06:07 localhost kernel: VM: killing process xmms > Sep 25 22:06:07 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation > failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60 > Sep 25 22:06:07 localhost last message repeated 3 times > Sep 25 22:06:07 localhost kernel: VM: killing process ksmserver > Sep 25 22:06:07 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation > failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60 > Sep 25 22:06:07 localhost kernel: VM: killing process kdeinit > Sep 25 22:06:08 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation > failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60 > Sep 25 22:06:08 localhost kernel: VM: killing process X > Sep 25 22:06:08 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation > failed (gfp=0xf0/0) from c012ff60 > Sep 25 22:06:08 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation > failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60 > f60 > Sep 25 22:06:08 localhost last message repeated 2 times > Sep 25 22:06:08 localhost kernel: VM: killing process kdeinit > Sep 25 22:06:08 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation > failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60 > Sep 25 22:06:08 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation > failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60 > Sep 25 22:06:08 localhost kernel: VM: killing process startkde > Sep 25 22:06:09 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation > failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60 > Sep 25 22:06:09 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation > failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60 > Sep 25 22:06:09 localhost kernel: VM: killing process named > Sep 25 22:06:09 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation > failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60 > > The /dev/hdc1 partition capacity is 6 GB. My root partition is on > /dev/hda5. My computer is a Pentium III with 384 MB of RAM. > > BTW, the same test in 2.4.6 works fine without any problem. > > Regards. > > > -- > D. Juan Piernas Cánovas > Departamento de Ingeniería y Tecnología de Computadores > Facultad de Informática. Universidad de Murcia > Campus de Espinardo - 30080 Murcia (SPAIN) > Tel.: +34968367657 Fax: +34968364151 > email: piernas@ditec.um.es > PGP public key: > http://pgp.rediris.es:11371/pks/lookup?search=piernas%40ditec.um.es&op=index > - > 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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