Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 9 Sep 2001 20:37:46 -0700 | From | Jeremy Zawodny <> | Subject | Re: Feedback on preemptible kernel patch |
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On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 05:24:36AM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote: > On September 9, 2001 11:37 pm, Robert Love wrote: > > On Sun, 2001-09-09 at 17:23, Arjan Filius wrote: > > > After my succes report i _do_ noticed something unusual: > > > > > > I'm not sure it's preempt related, but you wanted feedback :) > > > > > > Sep 9 23:08:02 sjoerd kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x70/1). > > > Sep 9 23:08:02 sjoerd last message repeated 93 times > > > Sep 9 23:08:02 sjoerd kernel: cation failed (gfp=0x70/1). > > > Sep 9 23:08:02 sjoerd kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x70/1). > > > This may not be your fault. It's a GFP_NOFS recursive allocation - > this comes either from grow_buffers or ReiserFS, probably the > former. In either case, it means we ran completely out of free > pages, even though the caller is willing to wait. Hmm. It smells > like a loophole in vm scanning.
I've seen that error on a couple 2.4.9 systems at work. It's certainly VM related, 'cause it doesn't happen when I disable swap on them. I've disabled it for performance reasons (the VM system is a little retarded in 2.4.x IMHO, so I'm just not letting it swap).
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