From: Juan <piernas@ditec.um.es>
To: kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Bad, bad, bad VM behaviour in 2.4.10
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 23:17:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BB0F483.69929A79@ditec.um.es> (raw)
Hi!
My test is very simple. I have started X-Window and XMMS in order to
listen to some songs. Then, I have executed
dd if=/dev/hdc1 of=/dev/null
as root within a terminal, and I have got the following a few seconds
later:
Sep 25 22:05:55 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation
failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60
Sep 25 22:06:00 localhost last message repeated 2 times
Sep 25 22:06:00 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation
failed (gfp=0xf0/0) from c012ff60
Sep 25 22:06:00 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation
failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60
Sep 25 22:06:00 localhost last message repeated 2 times
Sep 25 22:06:00 localhost kernel: VM: killing process xmms
Sep 25 22:06:00 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation
failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60
Sep 25 22:06:04 localhost last message repeated 11 times
Sep 25 22:06:04 localhost kernel: VM: killing process xmms
Sep 25 22:06:04 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation
failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60
Sep 25 22:06:04 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation
failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60
Sep 25 22:06:04 localhost kernel: VM: killing process kmix
Sep 25 22:06:04 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation
failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60
Sep 25 22:06:04 localhost last message repeated 2 times
Sep 25 22:06:04 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation
failed (gfp=0xf0/0) from c012ff60
Sep 25 22:06:04 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation
failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60
Sep 25 22:06:04 localhost last message repeated 3 times
Sep 25 22:06:04 localhost kernel: VM: killing process gpm
Sep 25 22:06:05 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation
failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60
Sep 25 22:06:06 localhost last message repeated 6 times
sep 25 22:06:06 localhost su(pam_unix)[2548]: session closed for user
root
Sep 25 22:06:06 localhost kernel: VM: killing process sendmail
Sep 25 22:06:07 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation
failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60
Sep 25 22:06:07 localhost kernel: VM: killing process konsole
Sep 25 22:06:07 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation
failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60
Sep 25 22:06:07 localhost kernel: VM: killing process named
Sep 25 22:06:07 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation
failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60
Sep 25 22:06:07 localhost kernel: VM: killing process xmms
Sep 25 22:06:07 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation
failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60
Sep 25 22:06:07 localhost last message repeated 3 times
Sep 25 22:06:07 localhost kernel: VM: killing process ksmserver
Sep 25 22:06:07 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation
failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60
Sep 25 22:06:07 localhost kernel: VM: killing process kdeinit
Sep 25 22:06:08 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation
failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60
Sep 25 22:06:08 localhost kernel: VM: killing process X
Sep 25 22:06:08 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation
failed (gfp=0xf0/0) from c012ff60
Sep 25 22:06:08 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation
failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60
f60
Sep 25 22:06:08 localhost last message repeated 2 times
Sep 25 22:06:08 localhost kernel: VM: killing process kdeinit
Sep 25 22:06:08 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation
failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60
Sep 25 22:06:08 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation
failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60
Sep 25 22:06:08 localhost kernel: VM: killing process startkde
Sep 25 22:06:09 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation
failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60
Sep 25 22:06:09 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation
failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60
Sep 25 22:06:09 localhost kernel: VM: killing process named
Sep 25 22:06:09 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation
failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60
The /dev/hdc1 partition capacity is 6 GB. My root partition is on
/dev/hda5. My computer is a Pentium III with 384 MB of RAM.
BTW, the same test in 2.4.6 works fine without any problem.
Regards.
--
D. Juan Piernas Cánovas
Departamento de Ingeniería y Tecnología de Computadores
Facultad de Informática. Universidad de Murcia
Campus de Espinardo - 30080 Murcia (SPAIN)
Tel.: +34968367657 Fax: +34968364151
email: piernas@ditec.um.es
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next reply other threads:[~2001-09-25 21:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-25 21:17 Juan [this message]
2001-09-25 20:03 ` Bad, bad, bad VM behaviour in 2.4.10 Marcelo Tosatti
2001-09-25 21:52 ` khromy
2001-09-25 22:08 ` Juan
2001-09-25 21:23 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-09-26 10:36 ` Juan
2001-09-26 8:05 ` Jacek Popławski
2001-09-26 15:23 ` Dan Mann
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