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Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 20:54:01 +0200
From: Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com>
To: Mike Galbraith <mikeg@wen-online.de>
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Subject: Re: Memory Problem in 2.4.10-pre2 / __alloc_pages failed
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On Sat, 1 Sep 2001 10:26:48 +0200 (CEST) Mike Galbraith <mikeg@wen-online.de>
wrote:

> On Sat, 1 Sep 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> 
> > Better go back and read the thread.  The allocation rate is definitely
> > limited - he's doing a cd burn and some network copies.  [....]
>                          ^^^^^^^
> P.S.
> Stephan:  try unconditionally doing gfp_mask &= ~__GFP_WAIT at the top
> of page_launder().  I think that will help your problem some.

Hi Mike,

I tried, doesn't make a difference. Same number of alloc-fails.
Sorry. 
Patch looks weird anyway :-)

Regards, Stephan