From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265506AbUBFOBU (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2004 09:01:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265512AbUBFOBU (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2004 09:01:20 -0500 Received: from intra.cyclades.com ([64.186.161.6]:7660 "EHLO intra.cyclades.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265506AbUBFOBO (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2004 09:01:14 -0500 Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 11:49:13 -0200 (BRST) From: Marcelo Tosatti X-X-Sender: marcelo@logos.cnet To: Evaldo Gardenali Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: problem on __alloc_pages In-Reply-To: <402281E3.6020405@gardenali.biz> Message-ID: References: <402244FE.5010107@gardenali.biz> <402281E3.6020405@gardenali.biz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Cyclades-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Cyclades-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Evaldo Gardenali wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > | > | On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Evaldo Gardenali wrote: > | > | > |>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > |>Hash: SHA1 > |> > |>Hi. > |>I am a newbie to kernel memory alloc, and got this on my server. > |> > |>Feb 5 11:09:39 server1 kernel: __alloc_pages: 1-order allocation failed > |>(gfp=0x1f0/0) > |>Feb 5 11:09:39 server1 kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed > |>(gfp=0x1f0/0) > |>Feb 5 11:10:36 server1 kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed > |>(gfp=0x1d2/0) > |>Feb 5 11:11:18 server1 kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed > |>(gfp=0x1d2/0) > |>Feb 5 11:11:18 server1 kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed > |>(gfp=0x1d2/0) > |>Feb 5 11:11:18 server1 kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed > |>(gfp=0xf0/0) > |>Feb 5 11:11:18 server1 kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed > |>(gfp=0x1d2/0) > |>Fev 5 11:11:39 server1 gconfd (evaldo-2337): Recebido sinal 15, > |>desligando corretamente > |>Fev 5 11:11:40 server1 gconfd (evaldo-2337): Terminando > |>Feb 5 11:11:52 server1 /usr/sbin/gpm[437]: imps2: Auto-detected > | > | > | Hi Evaldo, > | > | Do you have swap space available when this happens? > | > > Absolutely. this box never gets 500M swap used. highest I ever saw is > 400M on VERY HIGH activity (which happened only once, when we had a task > force going on here). right now, swap usage is 3M > I just added 500M more swap to it, just in case (swap partition) > > Oh. and I had memtest86 run the 'full test' for 4 days non-stop before > going production ;) This is probably happening because you ran out of swap space. Adding more will help. Check for application memory leaks.