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Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 13:47:57 +0200
From: Gergely Madarasz <gorgo@thunderchild.debian.net>
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Subject: Re: vm problems
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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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