Re: vm problems

Gergely Madarasz (gorgo@thunderchild.debian.net)
Wed, 29 Aug 2001 13:47:57 +0200

On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 01:14:19PM +0200, Gergely Madarasz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I get hundreds of this error message:
>
> __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed.
>
> The machine is an IBM x250 with 4G ram, the kernel is vanilla 2.4.9 and
> 2.4.9-ac3, no swap, running bonnie++. When the memory fills up with cache,
> I start receiving the error message.

actually I thought I was running 2.4.9-ac3, but no, and I see the message
is commented out in 2.4.9-ac3. Does this mean that it doesn't mean
anything serious? Some of my processes were stuck in uninterruptible
sleep, I couldn't even shutdown correctly, so there are some problems.

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