Re: Memory management problem with 2.6.0

[caszonyi@rdslink.ro]

On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Andrew Morton wrote:

> caszonyi@rdslink.ro wrote:
> >
> > I have a small script:
> >  #!/bin/sh
> >  umount /mnt/cdrom
> >  eject /dev/hdb
> >  echo "Invalid system disk"
> >  echo "Insert and press any key when ready"
> >  read junk
> >  eject -t /dev/hdb
> >  sleep 1
> >  mount /mnt/cdrom
> >  /usr/sbin/hdparm -E 10 /dev/hdb
> >
> >  It works all the time but today gave me this:
> >
> >  In the logs I had:
> >  Dec 27 19:06:16 grinch kernel: eject: page allocation failure. order:4,
> >  mode:0xd0
>
> Please, try
>
> 	ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.0/2.6.0-mm1/broken-out/cdrom-allocation-try-harder.patch
>
> and let me know?
>

for cdrom it *seems* to work.

The problem continues however for other applications
It is not specific to the ide-cd driver. The same problem happens
sometimes
with mplayer also

Dec 30 22:07:12 grinch kernel: mplayer: page allocation failure. order:4,
mode:0x21