On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 12:38:44PM -0600, Steve Lord wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 10:59:57AM +0100, Krzysztof Rusocki wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Here's what i've found today in logs:
> > >
> > > Feb 13 02:10:41 main kernel: __alloc_pages: 1-order allocation failed.
> > > Feb 13 02:10:42 main last message repeated 143 times
> > > Feb 13 02:10:47 main kernel: ed.
> > > Feb 13 02:10:47 main kernel: __alloc_pages: 1-order allocation failed.
> > > Feb 13 02:50:30 main syslogd 1.3-3: restart (remote reception).
> > >
> >
> > I typically get thousands of such messages when using my SCSI CDRW (I think
> > it's specifically when I'm cat'ing or dd'ing from the drive. Specifically, I
> > get 2- and 3-order allocation failures. I'll use the patch Andi Kleen
> > posted
> > to
> > track down the exact locations of these errors. There seem to be no ill
> > effec
> > ts
> > at all from these errors.
> >
>
> Was that an XFS kernel or just a regular kernel? Since you posted to both
> lists I was not not sure. We are working on cleaning up XFS's memory hogging
> behavior right now.
It seems to be unrelated to XFS, as I was getting these errors even before I
started using XFS.
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