From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750760AbWFZLoe (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:44:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750940AbWFZLod (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:44:33 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:27058 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750760AbWFZLod (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:44:33 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Rodrigo Ventura Subject: alloc_pages error Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 12:43:56 +0100 Organization: ISR/IST Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: gtisr.isr.ist.utl.pt User-Agent: KNode/0.10.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Under stressful conditions, I got the following dmesg mensages, repeatedly: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) VM: killing process python (and for other processes) however, the memory did not seem full: total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 904148 547464 356684 0 23068 56648 -/+ buffers/cache: 467748 436400 Swap: 1052632 234388 818244 The kernel is vanilla version 2.4.32. What is going on here? Cheers, Rodrigo -- *** Rodrigo Martins de Matos Ventura *** Web page: http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt/~yoda *** Teaching Assistant and PhD Student at ISR: *** Instituto de Sistemas e Robotica, Polo de Lisboa *** Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa, PORTUGAL *** PGP fingerprint = 0119 AD13 9EEE 264A 3F10 31D3 89B3 C6C4 60C6 4585