From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266194AbUBSHhX (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2004 02:37:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266517AbUBSHhX (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2004 02:37:23 -0500 Received: from ns1.g-housing.de ([62.75.136.201]:32151 "EHLO mail.g-house.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266194AbUBSHhV (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2004 02:37:21 -0500 Message-ID: <403467A2.6020402@g-house.de> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 08:37:06 +0100 From: Christian Kujau User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (X11/20040209) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marcelo Tosatti CC: linux-kernel , linux-crypto@nl.linux.org Subject: Re: 2.4.24 + cryptoloop: __alloc_pages: 5-order allocation failed References: <40317785.3060509@g-house.de> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.83.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Marcelo Tosatti wrote: | | Please do | | echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/vm_gfp_debug | unfortunately i am not able to do this right now, i'll have access to the machine on sunday i guess. so i have to wait what it gives then. | I suspect the problem is loop allocates its buffers in a way so that the | allocator can't sleep waiting for IO, which in turn overloads the memory | and causes the failures. yes, i've heard rumors too that the loop device was not so good at all when it comes to high i/o throughput. Thanks, Christian. - -- BOFH excuse #63: not properly grounded, please bury computer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFANGeh+A7rjkF8z0wRApHdAKDHxhC2WdWbSQGROyY0vhIl0pdTUwCg0+aV UESKUigO8UARal6xi+NzqHQ= =nwc6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----