Re: Kernel 2.6.9 Multiple Page Allocation Failures

Nick Piggin
2004-12-07T23:06:10Z

Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:

>On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 09:52:42AM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
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>>You're using 2.6.9, right? 2.6.10 should be better in this regard.
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>Yes, 2.6.9. I'm waiting for 2.6.10 final.
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OK. As a temporary fix for 2.6.9, increasing min_free_kbytes is the best
thing you can do.

If you are able to test 2.6.10-rc3, that would be nice.

>I tried also 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 but there was problably some memory corruption as
>/proc/loadavg displayed almost random load in range 0-2000.
>(according to http://undomiel1.ics.muni.cz/mrtg/load_1m.png)
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