Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262894AbUJ1K4i (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Oct 2004 06:56:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262958AbUJ1K4h (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Oct 2004 06:56:37 -0400 Received: from mail45.messagelabs.com ([140.174.2.179]:35243 "HELO mail45.messagelabs.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262894AbUJ1Kzu convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Oct 2004 06:55:50 -0400 X-VirusChecked: Checked X-Env-Sender: justin.piszcz@mitretek.org X-Msg-Ref: server-9.tower-45.messagelabs.com!1098960948!6862937!1 X-StarScan-Version: 5.4.2; banners=-,-,- X-Originating-IP: [66.10.26.57] X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Subject: RE: 2.6.9 page allocation failures Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 06:55:47 -0400 Message-ID: <2E314DE03538984BA5634F12115B3A4E01BC3FE6@email1.mitretek.org> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: 2.6.9 page allocation failures Thread-Index: AcS8z/KegU2xjgVbTqa6KBb86iOIugADLYDw From: "Piszcz, Justin Michael" To: "Andrew Morton" , "Badari Pulavarty" Cc: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1260 Lines: 38 $ cat /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes 886 What do you recommend it be set to? -----Original Message----- From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Morton Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 5:20 AM To: Badari Pulavarty Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.9 page allocation failures 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/ - 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/