From: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.6.9 Page Allocation Failures w/TSO+rollup.patch
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 08:03:32 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0410250744440.9868@p500> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <417CE49B.4060308@yahoo.com.au>
It does not cause any noticable problems that I know of, I guess it is
just a bit disturbing.
> Anyway, how often are you getting the messages?
It depends what I am doing, sometimes they happen after 20-30 minutes,
othertimes it takes a day or two.
> How many ethernet cards in the system?
There are 4 ethernet cards in the system.
1) 3c905b (on-board)
2) 3c905b (PCI)
3) 3c900 Combo (PCI)
4) Intel 82541GI/PI (PCI)
> Can you run a kernel with sysrq support, and do `SysRq+M`
> (close to when the allocation failure happens if possible, but
> otherwise on a normally running system after it has been up
> for a while). Then send in the dmesg.
Ok, I will try this.
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Justin Piszcz wrote:
>> I guess people who get this should just stick with 2.6.8.1?
>>
>
> Does it cause any noticable problems? If not, then stay with
> 2.6.9.
>
> However, it would be nice to get to the bottom of it. It might
> just be happening by chance on 2.6.9 but not 2.6.8.1 though...
>
> Anyway, how often are you getting the messages? How many
> ethernet cards in the system?
>
> Can you run a kernel with sysrq support, and do `SysRq+M`
> (close to when the allocation failure happens if possible, but
> otherwise on a normally running system after it has been up
> for a while). Then send in the dmesg.
>
> Thanks,
> Nick
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-25 12:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-25 10:48 Justin Piszcz
2004-10-25 11:33 ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-25 12:03 ` Justin Piszcz [this message]
2004-10-27 21:40 ` Kernel 2.6.9 Multiple Page Allocation Failures (Part 2) Justin Piszcz
2004-10-27 21:58 ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-27 21:55 ` Justin Piszcz
2004-10-27 22:19 ` Francois Romieu
2004-10-27 22:23 ` Justin Piszcz
2004-10-28 0:33 ` Lee Revell
2004-10-25 18:53 Kernel 2.6.9 Page Allocation Failures w/TSO+rollup.patch Chuck Ebbert
2004-10-25 19:03 ` Justin Piszcz
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