Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 00:07:19 +0100
From: Michael Guntsche <mike@it-loops.com>
To: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
       Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
       KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
       Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Page alloc problems with 2.6.32-rc kernels
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On 04 Nov 09 23:14, Frans Pop wrote:
> OK. Can you tell us a bit more about your setup:
> - how much RAM does the system have?
512MB 
> - what's so special about mutt in your case that it triggers these errors?
>   - do you maybe have a huge mailbox, so mutt uses a lot of memory?
>   - does starting/use mutt cause swapping when you see the errors?
Mutt is accessing a maildir directory with a several subdirectories
directly. All of them are added as mailboxes so I can jump to unread
mails. During startup and folder changing mutt is accessing all the
mailboxes.
> 
> From your first mail it does look as if you had little free memory and that 
> swap was in use.
I noticed that as well.
During the last days memory usage was not that high so maybe this
is the reason why I did not see any errors. I will continue running 
latest git and see if a get the errors again when more memory is being
used.

Kind regards,
Michael
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