Steve,
The attached files were created with "/cat /proc/slabinfo" (my 2.4.2-XFS
doesn't show a slabcache). slab.1 was written immediately after iozone
started, and slab.2 immediately after the first :
__alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed.
(approximately 10s later).
I'm looking at the patch now...
-Galen
On Tue, 22 May 2001,
Steve Lord wrote:
>
> Try the attached patch - it is against the 2.4.4 development tree, but it
> should work in the release tree as well. I am still benchmarking and
> scratching my head about this one, but it should help memory usage in
> xfs. Is it possible to send the output of cat /proc/slabcache whilst
> iozone is on its way to failing?
>
> Steve
>
>
> > Eric,
> >
> > I found your name and address on a thread about linux & xfs. I'm also
> > seeing the "kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation
> > failed." error on a 2.4.2-XFS system I just setup. We're comparing ext2,
> > reiserfs, and xfs with iozone. The xfs performance was looking great (50%
> > better on writes than ext2 or reiserfs) until the box fell over scrolling
> > these errors. It hangs the box and only a hard reset will suffice to
> > break out of it.
> >
> > I seem to be able to reproduce the error by running iozone this way:
> >
> > iozone -s 4000m
> >
> > That's a big iozone run, but the systems all have 2gig memory so I've got
> > to go big to get out of linux cache and see meaningful numbers. Has there
> > been any progress with this bug? If you'd like, I can get you a temporary
> > acct. on the system where I'm testing.
> >
> > -Galen
> >
> > --
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> > Galen Arnold, system engineer--systems group arnoldg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > National Center for Supercomputing Applications (217) 244-3473
> > 152 Computer Applications Bldg., 605 E. Spfld. Ave., Champaign, IL 61820
>
>
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Galen Arnold, system engineer--systems group arnoldg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (217) 244-3473
152 Computer Applications Bldg., 605 E. Spfld. Ave., Champaign, IL 61820
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