From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Daniel Phillips Subject: Re: kernel: __alloc_pages: 1-order allocation failed Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 00:57:34 +0200 References: <3B8AAA3E.80707@syntegra.com> In-Reply-To: <3B8AAA3E.80707@syntegra.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <20010827225101Z16227-32386+152@humbolt.nl.linux.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Kay , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On August 27, 2001 10:14 pm, Andrew Kay wrote: > I am having some rather serious problems with the memory management (i > think) in the 2.4.x kernels. I am currently on the 2.4.9 and get lots > of these errors in /var/log/messages. > > Aug 24 15:08:04 dell63 kernel: __alloc_pages: 1-order allocation failed. > Aug 24 15:08:35 dell63 last message repeated 448 times > Aug 24 15:09:37 dell63 last message repeated 816 times > Aug 24 15:10:38 dell63 last message repeated 1147 times > > I am running a Redhat 7.1 distro w/2.4.9 kernel on a Dell poweredge 6300 > (4x500Mhz cpu, 4Gb ram). I get this error while running the specmail > 2001 benchmarking software against our email server, Intrastore. The > system is very idle from what I can see. The sar output shows user cpu > at around 1% and everything else rather low as well. It seems to pop up > randomly and requires a reboot to fix it. > > Is there any workarounds or something I can do to get a more useful > debug message than this? Please apply this patch: --- 2.4.9.clean/mm/page_alloc.c Thu Aug 16 12:43:02 2001 +++ 2.4.9/mm/page_alloc.c Mon Aug 20 22:05:40 2001 @@ -502,7 +502,8 @@ } /* No luck.. */ - printk(KERN_ERR "__alloc_pages: %lu-order allocation failed.\n", order); + printk(KERN_ERR "__alloc_pages: %lu-order allocation failed (gfp=0x%x/%i).\n", + order, gfp_mask, !!(current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC)); return NULL; } -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/