On Tue, 21 Aug 2001 21:10:44 +0200
Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net> wrote:
> > Aug 21 20:14:51 admin kernel: __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed
> (gfp=0x20/0).
> > Aug 21 20:14:51 admin last message repeated 146 times
> >
> > Next idea?
>
> It's an atomic allocation, the driver is supposed to be able to handle this,
> and it does since you report that the burn just runs slowly, it does not
> stop. There is way too much in cache:
>
> > total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
> > Mem: 1053675520 1047502848 6172672 0 20930560 939307008
> > Swap: 271392768 15880192 255512576
>
> This is causing the high order allocation failures - with only a small
> fraction of memory free the chances of none of it being in contiguous,
> aligned 8 page units rises dramatically.
I basically thought the same. In fact I do not understand why. Are there any parameters tunable to balance the whole picture a bit more towards the free pages?
> It's likely the kprint that is
> slowing you down, you could check this by commenting it out (page_alloc.c,
> near the end of __alloc_pages).
I guess you mean the formerly patched debug-output, do you? I commented it out and saw a way better result than before. In fact I did not manage to break the NFS-copy at all, and although I managed to get the cpu load up to about 5 everything worked smoother. Only now and then were some moments where the display freezes "a bit", but mouse movement continues to work.
Anyway I am not sure, if it is intended that my browser gets swapped out only by copying files via NFS which are alltogether smaller than my physical 1 GB of RAM. I do think that there is still a little too much caching going on.
> Do you have the same problem on 2.4.8, but not in 2.4.7?
I am going to check that tomorrow. Downgrading is a bit tricky on this system.
Thanks Daniel,
I'll be back
:-)
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