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From: Michael Guntsche <mike@it-loops.com>
To: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Subject: Re: Page alloc problems with 2.6.32-rc kernels
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:00:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091027140007.GA27672@gibson.comsick.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200910271138.01624.elendil@planet.nl>

On 27 Oct 09 11:38, Frans Pop wrote:
> Michael Guntsche wrote:
> > I noticed that I get page alloc errors on one of my machines.
> > It is an old server I use as a fileserver with 512MB RAM. Before
> > 2.6.3[12] I did not see this problem at all.
> This is a known issue that's being heavily investigated, but is proving 
> very elusive. See http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/22/128 for an overview.
> 
> Can you easily reproduce the problem, or does it happen at random moments? 
> If you can reproduce it, it would be great if you could test the patches 
> mentioned in that mail.
Hello Frans,

Thanks for the info. I will try to reproduce it with those patches
applied. But it happens randomly I had no problems for several days now
just saw it again yesterday. Nevertheless I see if those patches help
and will report back.

Michael

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-27 14:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-27  9:50 Page alloc problems with 2.6.32-rc kernels Michael Guntsche
2009-10-27 10:38 ` Frans Pop
2009-10-27 14:00   ` Michael Guntsche [this message]
2009-10-27 14:00   ` Mel Gorman
2009-10-29  8:48     ` Michael Guntsche
2009-10-29 10:05     ` Michael Guntsche
2009-10-29 15:24     ` Michael Guntsche
2009-10-30 19:28     ` Michael Guntsche
2009-10-27 13:01 ` Jiri Kosina
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-11-02 12:20 Michael Guntsche
2009-11-04  0:14 ` Frans Pop
2009-11-04  7:17   ` Michael Guntsche
2009-11-04 22:14     ` Frans Pop
2009-11-04 23:07       ` Michael Guntsche

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