From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Gerhard Wiesinger <lists@wiesinger.com>,
qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Kernel Panic on Yum update
Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 10:10:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5555AA09.3090709@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5555A24C.9070907@wiesinger.com>
On 15/05/2015 09:37, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote:
>>
>
> Yes, yum takes memory. But there is ~2.2 GB virt memory available. That
> should be enough. Therefore I think it is a kernel problem. As in
> previous crashes on the mailing list there is a lot of swap available
> (2GB) which isn't touched in ANY way.
>
> Under normal conditions without yum:
> free
> total used free shared buff/cache
> available
> Mem: 243036 132540 12716 15520 97780 74964
> Swap: 2064380 0 2064380
Not all memory is the same. Some memory cannot be swapped, and some
memory can be swapped to disk without a swap file (e.g. executables).
Failing an order 0 allocation is weird indeed, but this is a GFP_ATOMIC
allocation so it's a bit less weird.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-15 8:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-15 6:34 [Qemu-devel] Kernel Panic on Yum update Gerhard Wiesinger
2015-05-15 6:51 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-05-15 7:37 ` Gerhard Wiesinger
2015-05-15 8:10 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2015-05-15 14:31 ` Gerhard Wiesinger
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