From: Feng Xian <fxian@fxian.jukie.net>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Feng Xian <fxian@chrysalis-its.com>
Subject: Re: __alloc_pages: 4-order allocation failed
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 08:09:06 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0104260807001.6221-100000@tiger> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0104252247480.1088-100000@freak.distro.conectiva>
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Feng Xian wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am running linux-2.4.3 on a Dell dual PIII machine with 128M memory.
> > After the machine runs a while, dmesg shows,
> >
> > __alloc_pages: 4-order allocation failed.
> > __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed.
> > __alloc_pages: 4-order allocation failed.
> > __alloc_pages: 4-order allocation failed.
> > __alloc_pages: 4-order allocation failed.
> > __alloc_pages: 4-order allocation failed.
> >
> >
> > and sometime the system will crash. I looked into the memory info,
> > there still has some free physical memory (20M) left and swap space is
> > almost not in use. (250M swap)
> >
> > I didn't have this problem when I ran 2.4.0 (I even didn't see it on
> > 2.4.2) could anybody tell me what's wrong or where should I look into this
> > problem?
>
> Feng,
>
> Which apps are you running when this happens ?
It looks like the X consumes most of the memory (almost used up all the
physical memory, more than 100M), it uses NVidia driver. I was also
running pppoe but that took less memory.
>
> Thanks
>
>
--
Feng Xian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-26 12:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-26 1:09 __alloc_pages: 4-order allocation failed Feng Xian
2001-04-26 1:48 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-04-26 12:09 ` Feng Xian [this message]
2001-04-26 12:30 ` Andi Kleen
2001-04-26 13:50 ` Feng Xian
2001-04-26 13:53 ` Andi Kleen
2001-04-26 13:56 ` Feng Xian
2001-04-26 6:15 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2001-04-26 8:57 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-04-26 18:00 ` Szabolcs Szakacsits
2001-04-26 17:33 ` Jeff V. Merkey
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.10.10104252238590.3810-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
2001-04-26 12:11 ` Feng Xian
2001-07-02 16:59 Ho Chak Hung
2001-07-05 21:25 ` Jes Sorensen
2001-07-06 0:33 David Whysong
2001-07-06 0:23 ` Marcelo Tosatti
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