Bernard Blackham wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 08:40:18PM +0800, Bernard Blackham wrote:
> 
>>On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 10:01:11PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
>>
>>>Also, Bernard, can you try running with the following patch and
>>>see what output it gives when you reproduce the problem?
>>
>>On resuming:
> 
> 
> And now with higher debug info that may prove useful (balance_pgdat
> firing as soon as kswapd woken):
> 
> *** Cleaning up...
> Free memory at 'out': 59157.
> Last free mem was 59157. Is now 59156. I/O info        value 0 now -1.
> Free memory at start of free_pagedir_data: 59156.
> Last free mem was 59156. Is now 60013. Checksum pages  value 1 now 857.
> Free memory at end of free_pagedir: 60013.
> Pageset size1 was 3057; size2 was 2330.
> Free memory after freeing pagedir data: 60013.
> Thawing tasks
> Waking     4: khelper.
> Waking     5: kthread.
> Waking     6: kacpid.
> Waking     8: pdflush.
> Waking    11: aio/0.
> Waking    10: kswapd0.
> Wakikswapd: balance_pgdat, order = 10

Someone asked for an order 10 allocation by the looks.

This might tell us what happened.