Re: 2.6.14-rc2-mm1

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it> wrote:
>
>  On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 10:28:39PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>  > 
>  > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.14-rc2/2.6.14-rc2-mm1/
> 
>  Herm... running almost good :) I just got the below allocation failure
>  (including /proc/slabinfo and /proc/vmstat, useful? can provide more
>  info if happens again - ah, exim is just running for the local delivery
>  purpose only). I did see it previously in .14-rc1-mm1 only but I didn't
>  find time enough to report it properly.
> 
> ...
>  exim4: page allocation failure. order:1, mode:0x80000020

Yes, it's expected that
mm-try-to-allocate-higher-order-pages-in-rmqueue_bulk.patch will cause more
fragmentation and will hence cause higher-order allocation attempts to
fail.

I think I'll drop that one.