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SubjectRe: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed on 2.4.23-pre5 and pre7
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, [iso-8859-2] Martin MOKREJ? wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > it's a long time I haven't seen sthis messages, but it just happened that
> > I did on my laptop ASUS L3880C(1GB RAM). The message show on
> > 2.4.23-pre5+acpi20030918 and 2.4.23-pre7. The application get's killed on
> > 2.4.22-acpi20030918 too, just without the "0-order allocation" message.
> > I enabled in kernel the VM allocation debug option when configuring, but
> > apparently I have to turn it on also somewhere else. *Documentation* is
> > missing: 1) the help in "make config/menuconfig" etc. doesn't say anything,
> > the Documentation subdirectory doesn't say anything except "debug" as
> > kernel boot option on command-line(I did that too, but no change) and also
> > linux kernel-FAQ doesn't say either. :(
> >
> > How I tested?
> > `gzip -dc file | less' and pressed `G' to jump to the very end of the file.
> > The filesize is 280MB only. In a while, the mouse stopps moving for a
> > while, than the system gets sometimes unloaded, fan is raises it's RPM's up
> > and down town to time, and mouse cursor eventually does a move and then
> > less command gets killed. In dmesg I found:
> >
> > __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
> > VM: killing process less
>
> Did you try to add some swap to the system?
>
> It seems you have none.

Yes, so far I did not need it. Do I really have to? I believe 1GB RAM
should suffice ... Sorry for not mentioning that!

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