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Memory subsystem error and freeze on 2.4.0-test12

DISCUSSION Jussi Laako 3 participants 4 messages Dec 14, 2000 – Dec 15, 2000

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Hello,

Is this normal:

Dec 14 12:33:32 alien kernel: __alloc_pages: 2-order allocation failed.

System deadlocked about one minute later.

I have hard resource limits set.

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Quoted 3 lines · Jussi Laako

Is this normal:

Dec 14 12:33:32 alien kernel: __alloc_pages: 2-order allocation failed.

This means that somebody tried to allocate a physically contiguous area of 2^2 = 8 pages, but such an area wasn't available.

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System deadlocked about one minute later.

Any idea which part of the kernel deadlocked? Was it the network driver, the VM subsystem, .... ?

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Quoted 5 lines · Rik van Riel
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Dec 14 12:33:32 alien kernel: __alloc_pages: 2-order allocation failed.

System deadlocked about one minute later.

Any idea which part of the kernel deadlocked? Was it the network driver, the VM subsystem, .... ?

I suspect the VM, it's been doing strange things since -test11, -test10 was working fine. There was heavy fork operation going on (about 50 processes).

Today got also 3-order allocation failures, probably from IDE driver or SCSI cdrom because cdda2wav triggered them. It happens every time when I start cdda2wav (with -B option). CDRW drive is only IDE device in the system, harddisks are SCSI.

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Quoted 9 lines · Rik van Riel
Quoted 3 lines · Jussi Laako

Is this normal:

Dec 14 12:33:32 alien kernel: __alloc_pages: 2-order allocation failed.

This means that somebody tried to allocate a physically contiguous area of 2^2 = 8 pages, but such an area wasn't available.

Ehrm. 2^2 = 4.

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