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To: Peter Zaitsev <peter@mysql.com>
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Subject: Re: lot of VM problem with 2.4.23
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On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, Peter Zaitsev wrote:

> On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 03:14, Octave wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Since we use 2.4.23 we have lot of crash. I have no kernel panic.
> > All I can report is this kind of syslog's message:
> > __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
> > VM: killing process rateup

How much swap do you have in your system?

This is happening because the system is unable to free memory (you
probably ran out of swap for some reason).