On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Rahul Jain wrote:
> 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.
Ok.
Please Andi's patch and report the results if possible.
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