From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 06:34:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 06:34:18 -0400 Received: from mailf.telia.com ([194.22.194.25]:51155 "EHLO mailf.telia.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 06:34:14 -0400 Message-Id: <200108241034.f7OAYPA07047@mailf.telia.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Roger Larsson To: Stephan von Krawczynski Subject: Re: Upd: [PATCH NG] alloc_pages_limit & pages_min Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 12:28:13 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] Cc: linux-kernel In-Reply-To: <200108231933.f7NJX8j21551@mailc.telia.com> <20010824112520.5f01626f.skraw@ithnet.com> In-Reply-To: <20010824112520.5f01626f.skraw@ithnet.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fridayen den 24 August 2001 11:25, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > On Thu, 23 Aug 2001 21:28:44 +0200 > > Roger Larsson wrote: > > Riel convinced be to back off a part of the patch. > > Here comes an updated one. > > Hello Roger, > > this does not solve my problem with NFS-copies. Just for information. I > tried and did not work. Besides I expected the patch to make the free pages > pool somehow bigger during file-copies, but ended up with this situation: > > [snip] > > The MemFree isn't really a lot compared to inact_dirty. knfsd fails at > least. Wait a minute - knfsd... hmm... Suppose knfsd allock without the wait flag - then it could cause this problems by itself... > Aug 21 20:14:51 admin kernel: __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed > (gfp=0x20/0). Who is doing thise allocs? Add a printout of current->pid with format %d I bet it is knfsd itself (or a driver it uses). Another thing to try is to run with non kernel nfs... /RogerL -- Roger Larsson Skellefteċ Sweden