Re: Memory Problem in 2.4.10-pre2 / __alloc_pages failed

From: Stephan von Krawczynski (skraw@ithnet.com)
Date: Sat Sep 01 2001 - 13:54:01 EST


On Sat, 1 Sep 2001 10:26:48 +0200 (CEST) Mike Galbraith <mikeg@wen-online.de>
wrote:

> On Sat, 1 Sep 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote:
>
> > Better go back and read the thread. The allocation rate is definitely
> > limited - he's doing a cd burn and some network copies. [....]
> ^^^^^^^
> P.S.
> Stephan: try unconditionally doing gfp_mask &= ~__GFP_WAIT at the top
> of page_launder(). I think that will help your problem some.

Hi Mike,

I tried, doesn't make a difference. Same number of alloc-fails.
Sorry.
Patch looks weird anyway :-)

Regards, Stephan

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