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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Krzysztof "Sierota (o2.pl/tlen.pl)" <Krzysztof.Sierota@firma.o2.pl>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.9-rc1-mm1 kjournald: page allocation failure. order:1,
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Krzysztof "Sierota (o2.pl/tlen.pl)" <Krzysztof.Sierota@firma.o2.pl> wrote:
>
> after creating several GB of data in small files on the SMP highmem box
>  the
> 
>  kjournald: page allocation failure. order:1, mode:0x20
> 
> 
>  start flooding the logs, load goes to sth around 1k, writing processes
>  get stuck in D state and the system needs hard reset.
> 
>  Anyone else is experiencing that kind of problems?
> 
>  Im running sw raid1 on that box, not preemtible kernel.

There should have been a stack trace as well.  Please send it.