Re: __alloc_pages: 4-order allocation failed

From: Feng Xian <fxian@fxian.jukie.net>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Feng Xian <fxian@chrysalis-its.com>
Subject: Re: __alloc_pages: 4-order allocation failed
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 09:56:20 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0104260955110.6474-100000@tiger> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0104260948210.6474-100000@tiger>

The problem is I didn't see those error message on 2.4.2 or 2.4.0, only on
2.4.3. That's the reason I posted the question here. Maybe I will try
2.4.4

Thanks all for you guys!

Alex

On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Feng Xian wrote:

>
> Yes I am running nvidia module. i tried nv, X use less memory but nv
> doesn't give me the NV_GLX extension, xlock will crash for some 3d mode.
>
> Alex
>
> On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 08:09:06AM -0400, Feng Xian wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > You're probably using the NVidia provided driver module, right?
> > Try it without it and the "nv" driver.
> >
> >
> > -Andi
> >
>
>

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