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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: thunder7@xs4all.nl
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.5.13 error:  kswapd: page allocation failure. order:0 mode:0x20
Date: Sun, 05 May 2002 22:39:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CD61705.3468C3EB@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020506051832.GA8595@alpha.of.nowhere>

Jurriaan on Alpha wrote:
> 
> Suddenly, after 36 hours uptime, the console was flooded with this
> message.

36 hours is probably a world record ;)


> May  6 06:54:24 alpha -- MARK --
> May  6 07:11:28 alpha kernel: apd: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20

It's possible that the machine really did run out of memory.  There
are some scenarios with memory-mapped holey files and with swap which
can result in unfreeable memory.  2.5.14 is better.

> May  6 07:11:28 alpha kernel: kswapd: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20
> May  6 07:11:28 alpha last message repeated 296 times

It's just a warning.  2.5.14 will calm it down.

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      reply	other threads:[~2002-05-06  5:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-06  5:18 2.5.13 error: kswapd: page allocation failure. order:0 mode:0x20 Jurriaan on Alpha
2002-05-06  5:39 ` Andrew Morton [this message]

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