From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265152AbUAaXS6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 Jan 2004 18:18:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265163AbUAaXS6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 Jan 2004 18:18:58 -0500 Received: from nms.rz.uni-kiel.de ([134.245.1.2]:29931 "EHLO uni-kiel.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265152AbUAaXS4 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 Jan 2004 18:18:56 -0500 From: Mike Gabriel Reply-To: mgabriel@ecology.uni-kiel.de To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: page allocation failed in 2.4.24 Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 00:18:23 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200402010018.23725.mgabriel@ecology.uni-kiel.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org hi there, can anyone tell me what these messages mean? running linux-2.4.24 on asus p4p800 deluxe. Jan 31 02:38:02 galileo kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0xf0/0) Jan 31 02:38:02 galileo kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) Jan 31 02:38:02 galileo kernel: VM: killing process slapd Jan 31 02:38:50 galileo kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0xf0/0) Jan 31 02:38:50 galileo kernel: ENOMEM in journal_get_undo_access_R9add2900, retrying. Jan 31 02:38:53 galileo kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0xf0/0) Jan 31 02:39:19 galileo last message repeated 3 times Jan 31 02:39:25 galileo kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) Jan 31 02:39:25 galileo kernel: VM: killing process sshd Jan 31 02:39:25 galileo kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) Jan 31 02:39:25 galileo kernel: VM: killing process sshd I get plenty of them during copying (cp -av ) a huge amount of data, which is densely filled with hard links from one raid to another... the cp command runs in a screen session. on huge directories, it starts blasting other processes from the system (sshd, nmbd, spong-client, etc.) any ideas? mike -- Oekologiezentrum Christian-Albrecht-Universität zu Kiel - netzwerkteam - Mike Gabriel Olshausenstr 75. 24118 Kiel fon: +49 431 880-1186 mail: mgabriel@ecology.uni-kiel.de www: http://www.ecology.uni-kiel.de, http://zope.ecology.uni-kiel.de