From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265708AbUBBJsQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Feb 2004 04:48:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265710AbUBBJsQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Feb 2004 04:48:16 -0500 Received: from nms.rz.uni-kiel.de ([134.245.1.2]:1535 "EHLO uni-kiel.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265708AbUBBJsL (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Feb 2004 04:48:11 -0500 From: Mike Gabriel Reply-To: mgabriel@ecology.uni-kiel.de Organization: OEZK, CAU Kiel To: Marcelo Tosatti Subject: Re: page allocation failed in 2.4.24 Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 10:47:17 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200402010018.23725.mgabriel@ecology.uni-kiel.de> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200402021047.17722.mgabriel@ecology.uni-kiel.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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! -- netzwerkteam - oekologiezentrum Mike Gabriel FA Geobotanik Christian-Albrecht Universität zu Kiel Abt. Prof. Dr. K. Dierßen Olshausenstr. 75 24118 kiel fon-oezk: +49 431 880 1186 fon-home: +49 431 64 74 196 mail: mgabriel@ecology.uni-kiel.de http://www.ecology.uni-kiel.de