Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752870AbZJ0JuZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:50:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752361AbZJ0JuY (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:50:24 -0400 Received: from lvps87-230-0-242.dedicated.hosteurope.de ([87.230.0.242]:35899 "EHLO lvps87-230-0-242.dedicated.hosteurope.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752300AbZJ0JuX (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:50:23 -0400 Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:50:15 +0100 From: Michael Guntsche To: linux-kernel Subject: Page alloc problems with 2.6.32-rc kernels Message-ID: <20091027095014.GA22215@gibson.comsick.at> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3131 Lines: 63 Hello list, I noticed that I get page alloc errors on one of my machines. It is an old server I use as a fileserver with 512MB RAM. Before 2.6.3[12] I did not see this problem at all. This only seems to happens when I use mutt on this machine. I know that it means I am running out of memory here, but I am wondering why I did not see this before.... mutt: page allocation failure. order:1, mode:0x20 Pid: 21746, comm: mutt Not tainted 2.6.32-rc5 #2 Call Trace: [] ? printk+0x18/0x21 [] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x417/0x4d8 [] cache_alloc_refill+0x250/0x496 [] __kmalloc+0xa4/0xa8 [] tty_buffer_request_room+0x88/0x11d [] tty_insert_flip_string+0x27/0x93 [] pty_write+0x24/0x4a [] n_tty_write+0x163/0x3ab [] ? default_wake_function+0x0/0xd [] tty_write+0x129/0x1c2 [] ? n_tty_write+0x0/0x3ab [] vfs_write+0x8e/0x142 [] ? tty_write+0x0/0x1c2 [] sys_write+0x3d/0x6b [] syscall_call+0x7/0xb Mem-Info: DMA per-cpu: CPU 0: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Normal per-cpu: CPU 0: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 52 active_anon:17616 inactive_anon:20870 isolated_anon:0 active_file:27963 inactive_file:43021 isolated_file:0 unevictable:0 dirty:284 writeback:0 unstable:0 buffer:5599 free:1401 slab_reclaimable:2966 slab_unreclaimable:3731 mapped:4083 shmem:88 pagetables:515 bounce:0 DMA free:2196kB min:84kB low:104kB high:124kB active_anon:1496kB inactive_anon:2340kB active_file:3212kB inactive_file:5884kB unevictable:0kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB present:15804kB mlocked:0kB dirty:40kB writeback:0kB mapped:648kB shmem:0kB slab_reclaimable:244kB slab_unreclaimable:244kB kernel_stack:176kB pagetables:64kB unstable:0kB bounce:0kB writeback_tmp:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no lowmem_reserve[]: 0 491 491 Normal free:3408kB min:2792kB low:3488kB high:4188kB active_anon:68968kB inactive_anon:81140kB active_file:108640kB inactive_file:166200kB unevictable:0kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB present:503616kB mlocked:0kB dirty:1096kB writeback:0kB mapped:15684kB shmem:352kB slab_reclaimable:11620kB slab_unreclaimable:14680kB kernel_stack:1688kB pagetables:1996kB unstable:0kB bounce:0kB writeback_tmp:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 DMA: 549*4kB 0*8kB 0*16kB 0*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 2196kB Normal: 754*4kB 35*8kB 7*16kB 0*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 3408kB 73515 total pagecache pages 2437 pages in swap cache Swap cache stats: add 22864, delete 20427, find 290544/291230 Free swap = 456788kB Total swap = 524280kB 130976 pages RAM 1952 pages reserved 52425 pages shared 86057 pages non-shared Please put me on CC since I am not subscribed to the list. Kind regards, Michael -- 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/