Re: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed

From: Marcelo Tosatti (marcelo@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Mon Sep 24 2001 - 06:12:20 EST


On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Jacek [iso-8859-2] Pop³awski wrote:

> I just installed 2.4.10, and...
>
> __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c0126c2e
> __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c0126c2e
> __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c0126c2e
> VM: killing process donkey_s
> __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1f0/0) from c0126c2e
> __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c0126c2e
> VM: killing process screen
> __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c0126c2e
> VM: killing process bash
> (...)
>
> I am changing kernels often, but never seen that kind of message. Last kernel I
> had before 2.4.10 was 2.4.10-pre4.
>
> PS. donkey_s is application which eats a lot of memory, but I have 384MB RAM
> and 100MB swap.

Jacek,

You had available swap when the VM started to kill processes ?

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