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Subject: Re: 2 NFS problems
From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: "Stanley, Jon" <Jon.Stanley@savvis.net>
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On Sat, 2004-04-24 at 20:28, Stanley, Jon wrote:
> I have two distinct problems possibly related to NFS in the Linux
> kernel.  Any assistance would be appreciated, any flames that say "you
> should have looked such-and-such place" are welcome as well, so long as
> they include pointers to said places :-)
> 
> 1)  A system will become unusable, with the following in
> /var/log/messages:
> 
> Apr 24 22:16:35 <hostname> kernel: __alloc_pages: 4-order allocation
> failed.
> Apr 24 22:16:35 <hostname> kernel: __alloc_pages: 4-order allocation
> failed.

Sorry. NFS does not do anything more than order 1 page allocations
(unless you are talking about the server - but that only does it at
startup).

Cheers,
  Trond