Re: Memory subsystem error and freeze on 2.4.0-test12

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Thu Dec 14 2000 - 12:16:06 EST

On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Jussi Laako wrote:

> Is this normal:
>
> Dec 14 12:33:32 alien kernel: __alloc_pages: 2-order allocation failed.

This means that somebody tried to allocate a physically
contiguous area of 2^2 = 8 pages, but such an area
wasn't available.

> System deadlocked about one minute later.

Any idea which part of the kernel deadlocked? Was it
the network driver, the VM subsystem, .... ?

Rik 

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