Re: 2.6.10-rc1-mm4 -1 EAGAIN after allocation failure was: Re: Kernel 2.6.9 Multiple Page Allocation Failures

[Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>]

Stefan Schmidt <zaphodb@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > As for the application collapse: dunno.  Maybe networking broke.  It would
>  > be interesting to test Linus's current tree, at
>  > 
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/patch-2.6.10-rc1-bk19.gz
>  Will try that tomorrow. Would you suggest printing out show_free_areas();
>  there too? I don't know what kind of an overhead that will generate on
>  subsequent stack traces.

I don't think it'd help much - we know what's happening.

It would be interesting to keep increasing min_free_kbytes, see if you can
characterise the system's response to this setting.