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* three days running fine, then memory allocation errors
@ 2004-09-20 11:07 Ingo Freund
  2004-09-20 13:02 ` Marcelo Tosatti
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Ingo Freund @ 2004-09-20 11:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

Hello,

I hope you guys can help, I cannot use any kernel 2.4 >23 without
the here described problem.

Searching the web for solutions to my problem I have already found 
a thread in a mailing list but no solution was mentioned, also the 
guys who talked about the error didn't answer to my direct mail.

The machine is a two xeon cpu database server without any other service 
except sshd running. I do some tests on the ICP-Vortex GDT controller 
every 2 minutes by using 
# cat /proc/scsi/gdt/2
but the output of cat stops without beeing completed.

This is what I see in the syslog file every time when I use the cat
command (the messages beginn after 3 days uptime):
--> /var/log/messages
kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x21/0)

What do you propose to do for I can get the information I need for 
longer than three days without reboot? This is a highly used database
server in production environment.

Kernel version (from /proc/version):
Linux version 2.4.27 (root@widbrz01) (gcc version 3.3.1 


# cat /proc/meminfo 
        total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
Mem:  2118139904 2074345472 43794432        0 151343104 1742090240
Swap: 6407458816 48291840 6359166976
MemTotal:      2068496 kB
MemFree:         42768 kB
MemShared:           0 kB
Buffers:        147796 kB
Cached:        1694548 kB
SwapCached:       6712 kB
Active:         223620 kB
Inactive:      1709760 kB
HighTotal:     1179628 kB
HighFree:         2080 kB
LowTotal:       888868 kB
LowFree:         40688 kB
SwapTotal:     6257284 kB
SwapFree:      6210124 kB

# cat /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax 
1069547520

# cat /proc/sys/kernel/shmall 
1073741824

Please let me know if there are any informations you need.
Thanks in advance for your answer,
regards
ingo.
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* RE: three days running fine, then memory allocation errors
@ 2004-09-23 11:18 Leubner, Achim
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Leubner, Achim @ 2004-09-23 11:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ingo Freund; +Cc: linux-kernel

Yes, I'm online and I will try to reproduce the error.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ingo Freund [mailto:Ingo.Freund@e-dict.net]
> Sent: Donnerstag, 23. September 2004 12:54
> To: Marcelo Tosatti
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Leubner, Achim
> Subject: RE: three days running fine, then memory allocation errors
> 
> Today the problem in requesting the controllers /proc entry came up
again.
> This time
> reboot   system boot  2.4.27           Tue Sep 21 10:35
(2+02:14)
> Sep 23 11:14:09 server01 kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation
failed (gfp=0x21/0)
> and still no output concerning memory usage of the controller.
> 
> Is Achim online?
> 

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