Re: 2.6.10-rc1-mm4 -1 EAGAIN after allocation failure was: Re: Kernel 2.6.9 Multiple Page Allocation Failures

Andrew Morton
2004-11-10T02:21:45Z

Stefan Schmidt <zaphodb@zaphods.net> wrote:
>
> > As for the application collapse: dunno. Maybe networking broke. It would
> > be interesting to test Linus's current tree, at
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/patch-2.6.10-rc1-bk19.gz
> Will try that tomorrow. Would you suggest printing out show_free_areas();
> there too? I don't know what kind of an overhead that will generate on
> subsequent stack traces.

I don't think it'd help much - we know what's happening.

It would be interesting to keep increasing min_free_kbytes, see if you can
characterise the system's response to this setting.