Re: [ANOMALIES]: 2.4.2 - __alloc_pages: failed - Patch failed

[Shawn Starr <spstarr@sh0n.net>]

Right now before OOPS:
Mem:    62244K av,   61292K used,     952K free,       0K shrd,    1496K buff
Swap:  467444K av,   37344K used,  430100K free                   29528K cached

I got a lot of things running, several daemons, netscape, and other things. I put
a 400MB swap for now just to help things.

Here's what happens after oops:

Wait a second...before I didn't have the 400MB swap on, and I had about 952K of
physical ram left. Shouldn't it try and swap if it cant get enough physical
memory?

It did NOT oops with that amount of swap:

If i turn it off:

Mem:    62244K av,   61288K used,     956K free,       0K shrd,    1448K buff
Swap:   64252K av,   38024K used,   26228K free                   29880K cached

and try the xcdrgtk (X CDRoaster)

I get...hrm.. this is really strange. Now its not ooping?!

I dont know it must have to do with something somewhere I cant tell you.

Mike Galbraith wrote:

> On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Shawn Starr wrote:
>
> > Unsure, the system remains stable after the fault though, strangely /dev/dsp
> > becomes "busy". I suspect it has to do with this somehow.. but im not sure.
> > I submitted a ksymoops dump, maybe that can help.
>
> Drop to single user and do a whopping big dd or iozone or bonnie
> and see what free reports afterward.  If much of your ram becomes
> available, it's not a leak.
>
>         -Mike