[Q]: kernel: __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed.

2001-07-19 Thread Till Immanuel Patzschke
Hi, I'm running a dual PIII, 3GB box (2.4.0.SuSE and 2.4.4.SuSE) getting the error above, despite the fact the ~700MB are still available. In conjunction w/ the log message I get fork failures (out of memory)... I'm running 5500 processes having devices open and doing IP. Many of the processes

Re: __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed. for 2.4.1-pre9

2001-01-23 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On 23 Jan 2001, Yann Dupont wrote: > I remember sawing that those errors were due to improperly written > drivers . Is the buslogic driver or tape driver are to blame here ?? Or > maybe this is a vm balancing issue ? Could you please send the output of "Alt+SysRq+m" (kernel must be compiled wit

__alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed. for 2.4.1-pre9

2001-01-23 Thread Yann Dupont
I had thoses errors messages on 2.4.1-pre9 : __alloc_pages: 2-order allocation failed. __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed. __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed. (ad nauseum) I was doing backups on scsi streamers using tar ; The files are on a md0 array, file system is reiserfs; the

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 dri

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 allocat

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

Re: 3-order allocation failed

2000-11-02 Thread Tigran Aivazian
Hi Rik, A simple test seems to show problems with page allocator. a) take a 6G RAM machine b) take a 70G harddisk c) mke2fs on it observe lots of "0-order allocation failures" while looking at /proc/meminfo reveals that I still have 5.1G of free memory (presumably some of it in NORMAL zone, n

Re: 3-order allocation failed

2000-11-02 Thread Rik van Riel
On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 01:42:17PM -0800, Dunlap, Randy wrote: > > > Is this bug in the usb-driver (usb-uhci), in the camera's driver > > > (cpia_usb) or in the v4l? > > ~~ > > Could there be a memory leak as well? But I e

Re: 3-order allocation failed

2000-11-01 Thread Andrew Morton
"Pasi Kärkkäinen" wrote: > > I added show_stack(0); to the mm/page_alloc.c : > > /* No luck.. */ > printk(KERN_ERR "__alloc_pages: %lu-order allocation failed.\n", order) > show_stack(0); > return NULL; > > Then, when the first stack-dump came to kern.log, I gave

RE: 3-order allocation failed

2000-11-01 Thread Dunlap, Randy
Rik van Riel; Forever shall I be.; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: 3-order allocation failed > > > On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 01:42:17PM -0800, Dunlap, Randy wrote: > > > Is this bug in the usb-driver (usb-uhci), in the camera's driver > > > (cpia_usb) or in t

Re: 3-order allocation failed

2000-11-01 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 01:42:17PM -0800, Dunlap, Randy wrote: > > Is this bug in the usb-driver (usb-uhci), in the camera's driver > > (cpia_usb) or in the v4l? > ~~ > Could there be a memory leak as well? But I expect that > it's simply that memory is just fragme

RE: 3-order allocation failed

2000-11-01 Thread Dunlap, Randy
> __alloc_pages: 2-order allocation failed. > > > > __alloc_pages: 2-order allocation failed. > > > > __alloc_pages: 5-order allocation failed. > > > > __alloc_pages: 4-order allocation failed. > > > > __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed. >

Re: 3-order allocation failed

2000-11-01 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
. > > > __alloc_pages: 5-order allocation failed. > > > __alloc_pages: 4-order allocation failed. > > > __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed. > > > __alloc_pages: 2-order allocation failed. > > > __alloc_pages: 5-order allocation failed. > > > >

Re: 3-order allocation failed

2000-10-26 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
. > > > __alloc_pages: 5-order allocation failed. > > > __alloc_pages: 4-order allocation failed. > > > __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed. > > > __alloc_pages: 2-order allocation failed. > > > __alloc_pages: 5-order allocation failed. > > > >

Re: 3-order allocation failed

2000-10-26 Thread Rik van Riel
c_pages: 4-order allocation failed. > > __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed. > > __alloc_pages: 2-order allocation failed. > > __alloc_pages: 5-order allocation failed. > > > > Any ideas? > > I'm getting __alloc_pages: 7-order allocation failed. > all t

Re: 3-order allocation failed

2000-10-26 Thread Forever shall I be.
es: 2-order allocation failed. > __alloc_pages: 5-order allocation failed. > __alloc_pages: 4-order allocation failed. > __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed. > __alloc_pages: 2-order allocation failed. > __alloc_pages: 5-order allocation failed. > > > Any ideas? >

Re: 3-order allocation failed

2000-10-26 Thread Keith Owens
On Thu, 26 Oct 2000 23:52:02 +1100, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[ You could put a show_stack(0) in here, but I believe ksymoops > doesn't understand show_stack() output ]. It does, and extracts the "Call Trace:" data. The stack is not printed by ksymoops because it does not have

Re: 3-order allocation failed

2000-10-26 Thread Andrew Morton
ailed. > __alloc_pages: 4-order allocation failed. > __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed. > __alloc_pages: 2-order allocation failed. > __alloc_pages: 5-order allocation failed. > > Any ideas? Nope - USB problem. I suggest you apply this: --- linux-2.4.0-test10-pre5/mm/pa

Re: 3-order allocation failed

2000-10-26 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
on failed. __alloc_pages: 5-order allocation failed. __alloc_pages: 4-order allocation failed. __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed. __alloc_pages: 2-order allocation failed. __alloc_pages: 5-order

Re: 3-order allocation failed

2000-10-26 Thread Andrew Morton
"Pasi Kärkkäinen" wrote: > > I'm using 2.4.0-test10-pre5 on a PIII (compiled with gcc 2.7.2.3) and > ... gcc-2.7.2.3 miscompiles kernel/module.c and it has been decided that this will not be worked around. The new baseline gcc release for x86 is gcc-2.91.66 (otherwise known as egcs-1.1.2). - To

3-order allocation failed

2000-10-26 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
ges to the syslog: __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. __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed. __alloc_pages: 3-order