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From: David Brown <dave@spoonguard.org>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: "Page allocation failure" messages with sendfile() and cryptoloop
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 01:09:50 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040318060950.GA2906@spoonguard.org> (raw)

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Hi:

I'm using Apache 2 to serve some rather large files from an XFS
volume on Linux 2.6.1. The XFS volume sits on a cryptoloop device,
which is in turn backed by a raw device (a partition on an IDE disk).

Apache 2 uses sendfile() to send static content. I'm seeing messages
like this when trying to send files whose size exceeds the available
RAM+swap:

  httpd: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x1d2

Seemingly polynomial slowdowns are also apparent. I can send a 7MB file
instantly, and a 220MB file without too much delay. I gave up on the 600MB
file after 10 minutes of unresponsiveness.

The machine does stay alive through all of this.

Are there any issues with the cryptoloop driver and sendfile()? Should I
try 2.6.4, or would more information be helpful?

Thanks,

- Dave


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