Re: [tainted,fglrx] page allocation failure: basic meaning of log messages?

[lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)]

On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 01:22:40PM +0200, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
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> Hi, 
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> #]> Apr  3 09:01:30 bellini hal-system-powe: page allocation failure. order:10, mode:0x4020
> #]> Apr  3 09:01:30 bellini Pid: 327, comm: hal-system-powe Tainted: PF       2.6.24-gentoo-r3 #1
> #]> Apr  3 09:01:30 bellini [<c0140c48>] __alloc_pages+0x2bd/0x2ce
> #]> Apr  3 09:01:30 bellini [<c0140c92>] __get_free_pages+0x39/0x47
> #]> Apr  3 09:01:30 bellini [<f8adcd9e>] firegl_cmmqs_save_fb+0x8e/0x200 [fglrx]
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> #]this messages doesn't mean bug, merely indicate allocation failure.
> #]if any other bad thind doen't happend, you can ignore it.
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> Swapping like mad without any obvious cause (500M swap in use, 1.5G RAM 
> - - which is normally not such a big problem). This however stopped when 
> I closed some memory-intensive applications (firefox, vmware).
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> Since then the machine is running without problems. 

firefox 2.x tends to leak memory like crazy in my experience, so it may
be perfectly normal.  If you have adobe's flash plugin firefox can leak
very quickly too.

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Len Sorensen