On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Forever shall I be. wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 02:57:30PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
>
> > > __alloc_pages: 2-order allocation failed.
> > > __alloc_pages: 2-order allocation failed.
> > > __alloc_pages: 5-order allocation failed.
> > > __alloc_pages: 4-order allocation failed.
> > > __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed.
> > > __alloc_pages: 2-order allocation failed.
> > > __alloc_pages: 5-order allocation failed.
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
> >
> > I'm getting __alloc_pages: 7-order allocation failed.
> > all the time in 2.4.0-test9 on my "pIII (Katmai)".. kernel's
> > compiled with 2.95.2 + bounds, without -fbounds-checking
>
> It means something in the system is trying to allocate a
> large continuous area of memory that isn't available...
>
> The printk is basically a debug output indicating that we
> don't have the large physically contiguous area available
> that's being requested.
>
> Basically everything bigger than order-1 (2 contiguous
> pages) is unreliable at runtime. Orders 2 and 3 should
> usually be available (if you only allocate very few of
> them) and higher orders should not be relied upon.
>
> If somebody is seeing a lot of these messages, it means
> that some driver in the system is asking unreasonable
> things from the VM subsystem ;)
>
> (and buffer allocations are failing)
>
I got those order-x messages when I was running a script, that looked
something like this:
streamer -s 320x240 -o webcam.jpg
sleep 5
It worked fine for about 20 minutes, and after I started to get those
messages and the camera didn't work anymore.
Solution: I'm now using a program, that is "using the camera all the
time" and it just saves the frames with 5 seconds delay.
The script I was running previously used streamer, that initializes and
opens the v4l-device everytime I run it.
Is this bug in the usb-driver (usb-uhci), in the camera's driver
(cpia_usb) or in the v4l?
- Pasi Kärkkäinen
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