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"Martin J. Bligh" wrote:
> 
> >> ...
> >> MemTotal:     32107256 kB
> >> MemFree:      27564648 kB
> >
> > I'd be suspecting that your node fallback is bust.
> >
> > Suggest you add a call to show_free_areas() somewhere; consider
> > exposing the full per-zone status via /proc with a proper patch.
> 
> Won't /proc/meminfo.numa show that? Or do you mean something
> else by "full per-zone status"?

meminfo.what?   Remember when I suggested that you put
a testing mode into the numa code so that mortals could
run numa builds on non-numa boxes?


> Looks to me like it's just out of low memory:
> 
> > LowFree:          1424 kB
> 
> There is no low memory on anything but node 0 ...
> 

It was a GFP_HIGH allocation - just pagecache.
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