Re: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed.

[Jean-Francois Landry <jflandry@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 06:14:16PM +0200, Seth Mos wrote:
<<snip kernel messages>>

> > The file was created successfully though...but the messages do tend to
> > put me on edge a bit.  Copying a 64gb file from an NFS share to the
> > filesystem doesn't show any problems.
> 
> Probably because it does not push the system as much.
> 

Not quite entirely on topic but I got similar kernel messages once when
extracting a largish tarball (about 70000 files, my ~/mail in Maildir
format) on a reiserfs partition on kernel 2.4.7, so I'd say this is a
generic kernel MM problem. Nothing bad happened though.

Jean-Francois Landry
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