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From: Mike Gabriel <mgabriel@ecology.uni-kiel.de>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: page allocation failed in 2.4.24
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 10:47:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200402021047.17722.mgabriel@ecology.uni-kiel.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58L.0402012151510.2331@logos.cnet>

hi marcelo,

> How much swap do you have on this system and how much swap space is free
> when you start seeing the allocation failures?

oh yes, when i rebooted the host yesterday, i saw a glimpse of

  swap device /dev/XXX has no swap signature (or similar)

in the kernel-message.

i did a 

  mkswap /dev/XXX; swapon /dev/XXX

and now the system works fine (for now...)

thanks for your reply,
mike

> "vmstat 2" output (start it before running the tests) and "cat
> /proc/slabinfo" output (before and during the tests) are useful to find
> out what is happening.

thanks for this info!

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      reply	other threads:[~2004-02-02  9:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-31 23:18 Mike Gabriel
2004-02-02  0:13 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-02-02  9:47   ` Mike Gabriel [this message]

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