Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262003AbVATAOW (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jan 2005 19:14:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261997AbVATAMj (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jan 2005 19:12:39 -0500 Received: from omx2-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.19]:50854 "EHLO omx2.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261988AbVATADe (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jan 2005 19:03:34 -0500 Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 10:59:55 +1100 From: Nathan Scott To: Ake Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: multiple page allocation errors in 2.6.10 Message-ID: <20050119235955.GC887@frodo> References: <20050119081132.GD4494@hpc2n.umu.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050119081132.GD4494@hpc2n.umu.se> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 691 Lines: 22 On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 09:11:32AM +0100, Ake wrote: > Hi! > I'm getting multiple page allocation errors under high load. > Should i worry about them? > > nfsd: page allocation failure. order:4, mode:0x50 > ...[xfs stack]... No, this one is OK and was a recoverable situation. We need to do some (non-trivial) work in XFS to prevent high order allocations in this situation altogether, but your system should still be fine. cheers. -- Nathan - 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/