From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756634AbYDCLXQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Apr 2008 07:23:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753563AbYDCLXE (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Apr 2008 07:23:04 -0400 Received: from mailservice.tudelft.nl ([130.161.131.5]:3720 "EHLO mailservice.tudelft.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754180AbYDCLXD (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Apr 2008 07:23:03 -0400 X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -8.379 Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 13:22:40 +0200 (CEST) From: "Andreas K. Huettel" X-X-Sender: huettel@localhost Reply-To: "Andreas K. Huettel" To: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [tainted,fglrx] page allocation failure: basic meaning of log messages? In-Reply-To: <20080403183021.028C.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com> Message-ID: References: <20080403183021.028C.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (LNX 882 2007-12-20) X-Information: My public GPG key can be obtained at http://www.akhuettel.de/ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 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 [] __alloc_pages+0x2bd/0x2ce #]> Apr 3 09:01:30 bellini [] __get_free_pages+0x39/0x47 #]> Apr 3 09:01:30 bellini [] 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 - -- This message is transmitted using 100% recycled electrons. - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Andreas K. Huettel tel. +31 15 27 88102 (univ.) Molecular Electronics and Devices +31 6 42527466 (mobile) Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft Delft University of Technology A.K.Huettel@tudelft.nl PO Box 5046, 2600 GA Delft mail@akhuettel.de The Netherlands http://www.akhuettel.de/research/ - --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please use GNUPG or PGP for signed and encrypted email. My public key can be found at http://www.akhuettel.de/pgp_key.php -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH9L4I3ao2Zwy3NWoRA90bAKCVUgen8y3P6xBKcAPIZSARE1VudQCgoklk X+V4eXmg7Tk5pikhui/zCeI= =pEk1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----