From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 6 May 2002 01:37:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 6 May 2002 01:37:01 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:13329 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 6 May 2002 01:37:01 -0400 Message-ID: <3CD61705.3468C3EB@zip.com.au> Date: Sun, 05 May 2002 22:39:17 -0700 From: Andrew Morton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.19-pre4 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: thunder7@xs4all.nl CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.5.13 error: kswapd: page allocation failure. order:0 mode:0x20 In-Reply-To: <20020506051832.GA8595@alpha.of.nowhere> 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 Jurriaan on Alpha wrote: > > Suddenly, after 36 hours uptime, the console was flooded with this > message. 36 hours is probably a world record ;) > May 6 06:54:24 alpha -- MARK -- > May 6 07:11:28 alpha kernel: apd: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20 It's possible that the machine really did run out of memory. There are some scenarios with memory-mapped holey files and with swap which can result in unfreeable memory. 2.5.14 is better. > May 6 07:11:28 alpha kernel: kswapd: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20 > May 6 07:11:28 alpha last message repeated 296 times It's just a warning. 2.5.14 will calm it down. -