From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751239AbWFBHFo (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jun 2006 03:05:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751243AbWFBHFo (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jun 2006 03:05:44 -0400 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.236]:18746 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751239AbWFBHFn (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jun 2006 03:05:43 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=PYwwfFdlk8Yk+FKU+23WUa984YsVxHhNWwSCXWUug9/DxyhF2JEnCs2kjTeAB9be/A6zVoxuyuUSvTc/GK+h7l1WXINcG09OKrUj7XEnRWhpxwGwIRXHj2mnZEeaVtB9rcFPRVLhGzjiHRKQZZL3GP/7O59DcoN4nfbt0vnHeFg= Message-ID: <9a8748490606020005n841abafjc7e05a5e2ab8a312@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 09:05:41 +0200 From: "Jesper Juhl" To: "Abu M. Muttalib" Subject: Re: Page Allocation Failure, Why?? Bug in kernel?? Cc: "Martin J. Bligh" , "Paulo Marques" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <447F00C7.4060904@mbligh.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 02/06/06, Abu M. Muttalib wrote: > Hi, > > That's precisely I want to say. The PAGES are available but they are not > allocated to process. Why?? > There may be 32 pages available in total, but not 32 contiguous ones - that's a *lot* of contiguous pages to ask for in kernel space - 128KB (assuming a 4096 byte page size). -- Jesper Juhl Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html