Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 5 Jul 2001 21:56:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 5 Jul 2001 21:56:08 -0400 Received: from perninha.conectiva.com.br ([200.250.58.156]:35090 "HELO perninha.conectiva.com.br") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 5 Jul 2001 21:56:01 -0400 Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 21:23:43 -0300 (BRT) From: Marcelo Tosatti To: David Whysong Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: __alloc_pages: 4-order allocation failed In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, David Whysong wrote: > Jes Sorensen (jes@sunsite.dk) wrote: > > >You ran out of memory, ie. there were no more free blocks of 16 > >consecutive pages available in the system. This is what happens on a > >system with little memory or which is loaded with memory intensive > >applications. > > I'm seeing the same thing here on a machine with 256 MB RAM and 1.5 > gigabytes of swap. There is no chance I am using anywhere near that > much virtual memory. > > Something is wrong with the MM in 2.4.6-pre9. David, The messages are "harmless". The SCSI layer is trying to allocate big chunks of memory (for the scattergather tables IIRC) just as an optimization. If its not possible to allocate big chunks, the SCSI code will use lower order allocations. (smaller chunks) - 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/