Re: 2.4.0: __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed.

2001-01-07 Thread Jens Axboe
On Sun, Jan 07 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > > __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed. > > This debugging check should probably be removed around > 2.4.5, in the mean time it is much too useful to track > down badly behaving device drivers ;) It need not be a badly written driver, it could be a

Re: 2.4.0: __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed.

2001-01-07 Thread Rik van Riel
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, John O'Donnell wrote: > What does this message mean in my dmesg output? > > __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed. It means something in the kernel is trying to allocate an area of 8 physically contiguous pages, but that wasn't available so the allocation failed... This

2.4.0: __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed.

2001-01-07 Thread John O'Donnell
What does this message mean in my dmesg output? __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed. __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed. __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed. __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed. __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed. reset_xmit_timer sk=c5b3a680 1 when=0x