From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 17:11:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 17:10:54 -0400 Received: from zape.um.es ([155.54.0.102]:8155 "EHLO zape.um.es") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 17:10:49 -0400 Message-ID: <3BB0F483.69929A79@ditec.um.es> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 23:17:55 +0200 From: Juan X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [es] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.6 i686) X-Accept-Language: es-ES, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: kernel list Subject: Bad, bad, bad VM behaviour in 2.4.10 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 PGP public key: http://pgp.rediris.es:11371/pks/lookup?search=piernas%40ditec.um.es&op=index