Re: swsusp: 8-order allocation failure on demand (update)

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>]

On Thursday 14 of October 2004 23:47, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 of October 2004 19:29, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Tuesday 12 of October 2004 10:55, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > > 
> > > > > > Ok... And I guess it is nearly impossible to trigger this on 
demand,
> > > > > > right?
> > > > 
> > > > I think it is possible.  Seemingly, on my box it's only a question of 
> the 
> > > > number of apps started.  I think I can work out a method to trigger it
> > > > 90% of the time or so.  Please let me know if it's worthy of doing.
> > > 
> > > Yes, it would certainly help with testing...
> 
> Well, I can do that, it seems, 100% of the time.
> 
> The method is to do "init 5" (my default runlevel is 3, because vts become 
> unreadable after I start X), log into KDE (as a non-root), start some X apps 
> at random (eg. I run gkrellm, kmail, konqueror, Mozilla FireFox 32-bit w/ 
> Flash plugin, and konsole with "su -") and run updatedb (as root, of
> course). 

To be precise, the method always leads to a failure, but it seems to be either 
8-order or 9-order page allocation failure.

Greets,
RJW

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