From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261964AbULGXGK (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Dec 2004 18:06:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261933AbULGXGK (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Dec 2004 18:06:10 -0500 Received: from mail-05.iinet.net.au ([203.59.3.37]:49584 "HELO mail.iinet.net.au") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261964AbULGXFf (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Dec 2004 18:05:35 -0500 Message-ID: <41B63738.2010305@cyberone.com.au> Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 10:05:28 +1100 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041007 Debian/1.7.3-5 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lukas Hejtmanek CC: Andrew Morton , zaphodb@zaphods.net, marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Kernel 2.6.9 Multiple Page Allocation Failures References: <20041121024226.GK4999@zaphods.net> <20041202195422.GA20771@mail.muni.cz> <20041202122546.59ff814f.akpm@osdl.org> <20041202210348.GD20771@mail.muni.cz> <20041202223146.GA31508@zaphods.net> <20041202145610.49e27b49.akpm@osdl.org> <20041202231837.GB15185@mail.muni.cz> <20041202161839.736352c2.akpm@osdl.org> <20041203121129.GC27716@mail.muni.cz> <41B6343A.9060601@cyberone.com.au> <20041207225932.GB12030@mail.muni.cz> In-Reply-To: <20041207225932.GB12030@mail.muni.cz> 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 Lukas Hejtmanek wrote: >On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 09:52:42AM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > >>You're using 2.6.9, right? 2.6.10 should be better in this regard. >> > >Yes, 2.6.9. I'm waiting for 2.6.10 final. > > OK. As a temporary fix for 2.6.9, increasing min_free_kbytes is the best thing you can do. If you are able to test 2.6.10-rc3, that would be nice. >I tried also 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 but there was problably some memory corruption as >/proc/loadavg displayed almost random load in range 0-2000. >(according to http://undomiel1.ics.muni.cz/mrtg/load_1m.png) > > >