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From: Christian Kujau <evil@g-house.de>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, linux-crypto@nl.linux.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.24 + cryptoloop: __alloc_pages: 5-order allocation failed
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 08:37:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <403467A2.6020402@g-house.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58L.0402182037320.11790@logos.cnet>

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Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
|
| Please do
|
| echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/vm_gfp_debug
|

unfortunately i am not able to do this right now, i'll have access to
the machine on sunday i guess. so i have to wait what it gives then.

| I suspect the problem is loop allocates its buffers in a way so that the
| allocator can't sleep waiting for IO, which in turn overloads the memory
| and causes the failures.

yes, i've heard rumors too that the loop device was not so good at all
when it comes to high i/o throughput.

Thanks,
Christian.
- --
BOFH excuse #63:

not properly grounded, please bury computer
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-19  7:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-17  2:08 2.4.24 + cryptoloop: __alloc_pages: 5-order allocation failed Christian Kujau
2004-02-18 23:42 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-02-19  7:37   ` Christian Kujau [this message]
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2004-02-25  4:04 Christian

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