From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 11:11:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 11:11:32 -0400 Received: from [217.6.75.131] ([217.6.75.131]:59273 "EHLO mail.internetwork-ag.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 11:11:19 -0400 Message-ID: <3B56FA33.A3ED4F6E@internetwork-ag.de> Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 17:18:11 +0200 From: Till Immanuel Patzschke Organization: interNetwork AG X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: [Q]: kernel: __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-kernel-outgoing Hi, I'm running a dual PIII, 3GB box (2.4.0.SuSE and 2.4.4.SuSE) getting the error above, despite the fact the ~700MB are still available. In conjunction w/ the log message I get fork failures (out of memory)... I'm running 5500 processes having devices open and doing IP. Many of the processes are pppds. Is there any way to allow the kernel using more of the available memory (tweaking constants etc.)... [limits have been raised...] Thanks for the help, Immanuel -- Till Immanuel Patzschke mailto: tip@internetwork-ag.de interNetwork AG Phone: +49-(0)611-1731-121 Bierstadter Str. 7 Fax: +49-(0)611-1731-31 D-65189 Wiesbaden Web: http://www.internetwork-ag.de