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

Shawn Starr
2001-02-25T23:13:36Z

Well, I Discovered, something strange. I put in a blank new CD-R, so these
errors are not of concern? (In which case why have the kernel log get
spewed with them if they are guaranteed to happen?)

Shawn.

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On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote:

> The way sg_low_malloc() tries to allocate, failure messages are
> pretty much garanteed. It tries high order allocations (which
> are unreliable even when not stressed) and backs off until it
> succeeds.
>
> In other words, the messages are a red herring.
>
> -Mike
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