Re: [2.6.8-rc2][XFS] Page allocation failure

[Chris Wedgwood]

On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 07:30:23PM +0200, Kronos wrote:

> java: page allocation failure. order:5, mode:0xd0

> It seems that XFS failed an order 5 allocation (not atomic) on the
> read path two times (there are 80 secs between the warnings). Can I
> assume that the FS is not harmed?

Unless it oopsed it should be OK.  XFS retries the allocations sowhat
you are seeing are the lower-layers warning.

> Btw, even if the allocation is quite big the machine was up for a
> bit more the one hour, it's strange that the memory is fragmented so
> badly...

Blame java :)



  --cw
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