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From: "Andreas K. Huettel" <A.K.Huettel@tudelft.nl>
To: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tainted,fglrx] page allocation failure: basic meaning of log messages?
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 13:22:40 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0804031318480.10277@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080403183021.028C.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com>

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Hi, 

#]> Apr  3 09:01:30 bellini hal-system-powe: page allocation failure. order:10, mode:0x4020
#]> Apr  3 09:01:30 bellini Pid: 327, comm: hal-system-powe Tainted: PF       2.6.24-gentoo-r3 #1
#]> Apr  3 09:01:30 bellini [<c0140c48>] __alloc_pages+0x2bd/0x2ce
#]> Apr  3 09:01:30 bellini [<c0140c92>] __get_free_pages+0x39/0x47
#]> Apr  3 09:01:30 bellini [<f8adcd9e>] firegl_cmmqs_save_fb+0x8e/0x200 [fglrx]
#]
#]this messages doesn't mean bug, merely indicate allocation failure.
#]if any other bad thind doen't happend, you can ignore it.

Swapping like mad without any obvious cause (500M swap in use, 1.5G RAM 
- - which is normally not such a big problem). This however stopped when 
I closed some memory-intensive applications (firefox, vmware).

Since then the machine is running without problems. 

Thanks for the info, 
Andreas



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  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-03 11:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-03  9:27 [tainted,fglrx] page allocation failure: basic meaning of log messages? Andreas K. Huettel
2008-04-03  9:34 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-04-03 11:22   ` Andreas K. Huettel [this message]
2008-04-03 14:48     ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-04-03 15:00       ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-04-08  9:39         ` Andreas K. Huettel
2008-04-08 11:19           ` Andi Kleen

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