> 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.
Steve
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