From: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
To: Ruben Rubio Rey <ruben@rentalia.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question about page allocation failure
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 19:59:59 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050915195958.A4873589@wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <432914F1.4090001@rentalia.com>; from ruben@rentalia.com on Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 08:30:09AM +0200
On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 08:30:09AM +0200, Ruben Rubio Rey wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Im getting an error: "perl5.8.5: page allocation failure. order:4,
> mode:0x50".
>
> What does it means?
> Is it dangerous?
> What may I do to fix it?
>
> Im using kernel 2.6.9-1.667smp and XFS filesystem.
You have a _heavily_ fragmented file in an XFS filesystem...
there's work underway to prevent this from happening, but for
now you can run xfs_fsr to reduce fragmentation. XFS retries
the allocation until it succeeds, so its far from optimal but
not dangerous.
cheers.
--
Nathan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-15 10:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-15 6:30 Ruben Rubio Rey
2005-09-15 7:03 ` liyu@WAN
2005-09-15 9:59 ` Nathan Scott [this message]
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