Quoting Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>:
> On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 01:18:13PM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'm running 2.4.28 bk snapshot of 2004.09.03
> > The machine has an uptime of 7 days, 23:46 now.
> > 
> > I was running several bittorrent clients inside of
> > a screen session. Suddenly they all died (including the
> > screen session).
> > dmesg sayed this:
> > 
> > __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1f0/0)
> > __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
> > VM: killing process python
> > __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
> > __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
> > VM: killing process screen
> > 
> > I already got this with kernel 2.4.27 vanilla after a
> > higher amount of uptime (I think it was over 10 days).
> > This was exactly the reason I updated to bk snapshot.
> > 
> > What can be the reason for this? Is it OOM? (I can't
> > really believe it is).
> 
> Can you check how much swap space is there available when
> the OOM killer trigger? I bet this is the case.

The machine doesn't have swap.

> If its not, we have a problem.
> 
> > Is it a kernel memory leak?
> > 
> > With 2.4.26 I never got these errors. And I ran uptimes
> > up to 50 days.
> 
> 

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