Re: __alloc_pages: 4-order allocation failed

From: Marcelo Tosatti (marcelo@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Wed Apr 25 2001 - 20:48:10 EST


On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Feng Xian wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am running linux-2.4.3 on a Dell dual PIII machine with 128M memory.
> After the machine runs a while, dmesg shows,
>
> __alloc_pages: 4-order allocation failed.
> __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed.
> __alloc_pages: 4-order allocation failed.
> __alloc_pages: 4-order allocation failed.
> __alloc_pages: 4-order allocation failed.
> __alloc_pages: 4-order allocation failed.
>
>
> and sometime the system will crash. I looked into the memory info,
> there still has some free physical memory (20M) left and swap space is
> almost not in use. (250M swap)
>
> I didn't have this problem when I ran 2.4.0 (I even didn't see it on
> 2.4.2) could anybody tell me what's wrong or where should I look into this
> problem?

Feng,

Which apps are you running when this happens ?

Thanks

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