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Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 15:48:32 +0200
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Paul Larson <plars@austin.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed
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On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 11:35:41AM +0000, Paul Larson wrote:
> 
> The patch helped for me, but there are still problems.  I was able to
> run all the way through LTP without it shutting anything down.  When I
> used one of the memory tests to chew up all the ram though, I noticed
> that VM was killing things it shouldn't have.  First thing to get killed
> was cron, then top, then it finally killed mtest01 (the memory test
> mentioned before).

can you reproduce anything wrong with vm-tweaks-2 applied to plain
2.4.10? I posted it to l-k a few minutes ago.

Andrea