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Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 14:30:12 +0200
From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Feng Xian <fxian@fxian.jukie.net>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Feng Xian <fxian@chrysalis-its.com>
Subject: Re: __alloc_pages: 4-order allocation failed
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On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 08:09:06AM -0400, Feng Xian wrote:
> It looks like the X consumes most of the memory (almost used up all the
> physical memory, more than 100M), it uses NVidia driver. I was also
> running pppoe but that took less memory.

You're probably using the NVidia provided driver module, right?
Try it without it and the "nv" driver.


-Andi 
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