Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 06:59:08 +0100 (CET)
From: Tobias Oetiker <tobi@oetiker.ch>
To: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: still getting allocation failures (was Re: [PATCH] vmscan: Stop
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Hi Corrado,

Dec 3 Corrado Zoccolo wrote:

> Hi Tobias,
> does the patch in http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/11/30/301 help with your
> high order allocation problems?
> It seems that you have lot of memory, but high order pages do not show up.
> The patch should make them more likely to appear.
> On my machine (that has much less ram than yours), with the patch, I
> always have order-10 pages available.

I have tried it and ... it does not work, the  page allocation
failure still shows. BUT while testing it on two machines I found that it
only shows on on machine. The workload on the two machines is
similar (they both run virtualbox) and also the available memory.

Could it be caused by a hardware driver ?

cheers
tobi

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