Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932455AbVIOKAI (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Sep 2005 06:00:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932444AbVIOKAI (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Sep 2005 06:00:08 -0400 Received: from omx2-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.19]:38350 "EHLO omx2.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932455AbVIOKAB (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Sep 2005 06:00:01 -0400 Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 19:59:59 +1000 From: Nathan Scott To: Ruben Rubio Rey Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Question about page allocation failure Message-ID: <20050915195958.A4873589@wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com> References: <432914F1.4090001@rentalia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <432914F1.4090001@rentalia.com>; from ruben@rentalia.com on Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 08:30:09AM +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 813 Lines: 27 On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 08:30:09AM +0200, Ruben Rubio Rey wrote: > Hi, > > Im getting an error: "perl5.8.5: page allocation failure. order:4, > mode:0x50". > > What does it means? > Is it dangerous? > What may I do to fix it? > > Im using kernel 2.6.9-1.667smp and XFS filesystem. You have a _heavily_ fragmented file in an XFS filesystem... there's work underway to prevent this from happening, but for now you can run xfs_fsr to reduce fragmentation. XFS retries the allocation until it succeeds, so its far from optimal but not dangerous. 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/