Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262846AbUJ1JWA (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Oct 2004 05:22:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262848AbUJ1JWA (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Oct 2004 05:22:00 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:57250 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262846AbUJ1JV4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Oct 2004 05:21:56 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 02:19:54 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Badari Pulavarty Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.9 page allocation failures Message-Id: <20041028021954.237010f8.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <1098888880.20643.130.camel@dyn318077bld.beaverton.ibm.com> References: <1098888880.20643.130.camel@dyn318077bld.beaverton.ibm.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 659 Lines: 17 Badari Pulavarty wrote: > > Hi, > > I see following page allocation failures while running IO intensive > tests on 2.6.9. My tests didn't fail, so I guess its okay. But > I never saw this before. > > Its on a 4-way AMD64 machine with 7GB RAM. Tests create 10 4GB files > on 10 disks (one filesystem per disk) in parallel. (dd if=/dev/zero ...) Tried increasing /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/