From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934179AbYEUTac (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 May 2008 15:30:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757575AbYEUTaN (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 May 2008 15:30:13 -0400 Received: from mail.quartics.com ([66.162.39.20]:30072 "EHLO mail.quartics.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757494AbYEUTaL convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 May 2008 15:30:11 -0400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Subject: RE: VM: killing process - How to identify the problem Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 12:30:10 -0700 Message-ID: <87A697E50899F541B77272C331CEB7440174624C@exchange.Q-DOMAIN> In-Reply-To: <4833D2EF.5090401@gmail.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: VM: killing process - How to identify the problem Thread-Index: Aci7FoReUgVBoZDyRvm9sv8nvLp9GgAYadQw References: <87A697E50899F541B77272C331CEB74401746058@exchange.Q-DOMAIN> <4833D2EF.5090401@gmail.com> From: "Mudeem Siddiqui" To: "Jiri Slaby" Cc: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 21 May 2008 19:30:10.0655 (UTC) FILETIME=[15853EF0:01C8BB79] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >Just curious, is is a typo? I would say is is is a typo :) >> >> __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed >> __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed >> __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed >> >> >> and then >> >> VM: killing process >Caused by out of memory, a page fault couldn't be serviced due to memory >exhaustion. See arch/mips/mm/fault.c. Can this condition arise due to some other reason other than memory leak. E.g the way the paging is being done etc because the application calls malloc only once when it starts. I have been struggling with this for quite a while, how would you recommend I should try to solve this? Thanks