From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262771AbTJNVIk (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2003 17:08:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262776AbTJNVIk (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2003 17:08:40 -0400 Received: from tao.natur.cuni.cz ([195.113.56.1]:34065 "EHLO tao.natur.cuni.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262771AbTJNVId (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2003 17:08:33 -0400 X-Obalka-From: mmokrejs@natur.cuni.cz Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 23:08:23 +0200 (CEST) From: =?iso-8859-2?Q?Martin_MOKREJ=A9?= To: Marcelo Tosatti cc: Linux Kernel Mailing Subject: Re: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed on 2.4.23-pre5 and pre7 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, [iso-8859-2] Martin MOKREJ? wrote: > > > Hi, > > it's a long time I haven't seen sthis messages, but it just happened that > > I did on my laptop ASUS L3880C(1GB RAM). The message show on > > 2.4.23-pre5+acpi20030918 and 2.4.23-pre7. The application get's killed on > > 2.4.22-acpi20030918 too, just without the "0-order allocation" message. > > I enabled in kernel the VM allocation debug option when configuring, but > > apparently I have to turn it on also somewhere else. *Documentation* is > > missing: 1) the help in "make config/menuconfig" etc. doesn't say anything, > > the Documentation subdirectory doesn't say anything except "debug" as > > kernel boot option on command-line(I did that too, but no change) and also > > linux kernel-FAQ doesn't say either. :( > > > > How I tested? > > `gzip -dc file | less' and pressed `G' to jump to the very end of the file. > > The filesize is 280MB only. In a while, the mouse stopps moving for a > > while, than the system gets sometimes unloaded, fan is raises it's RPM's up > > and down town to time, and mouse cursor eventually does a move and then > > less command gets killed. In dmesg I found: > > > > __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) > > VM: killing process less > > Did you try to add some swap to the system? > > It seems you have none. Yes, so far I did not need it. Do I really have to? I believe 1GB RAM should suffice ... Sorry for not mentioning that! -- Martin Mokrejs , PGP5.0i key is at http://www.natur.cuni.cz/~mmokrejs MIPS / Institute for Bioinformatics GSF - National Research Center for Environment and Health Ingolstaedter Landstrasse 1, D-85764 Neuherberg, Germany tel.: +49-89-3187 3683 , fax: +49-89-3187 3585