From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [129.179.161.11] by ns1.cdc.com with ESMTP for linux-mm@kvack.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 15:17:40 -0500 Received: from [129.179.80.32] by cdsms.cdc.com with ESMTP for linux-mm@kvack.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 15:17:38 -0500 Message-Id: <3B8AAA3E.80707@syntegra.com> Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 15:14:54 -0500 From: Andrew Kay Subject: kernel: __alloc_pages: 1-order allocation failed MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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? It doesn't seem to throw any other visible errors. Maybe an older more stable kernel or less memory? I have the sar output if anyone is interested. This bug is the only current roadblock for me to publish specmail 2001 results to spec.org. It can be reproduced fairly easily with a little setup time. Thanks, Andy -- 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/