From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Stefan Schmidt <zaphodb@zaphods.net>
Cc: marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
piggin@cyberone.com.au, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.10-rc1-mm4 -1 EAGAIN after allocation failure was: Re: Kernel 2.6.9 Multiple Page Allocation Failures
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 18:21:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041109182129.22a4e9a3.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041110020327.GE20754@zaphods.net>
Stefan Schmidt <zaphodb@zaphods.net> wrote:
>
> > As for the application collapse: dunno. Maybe networking broke. It would
> > be interesting to test Linus's current tree, at
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/patch-2.6.10-rc1-bk19.gz
> Will try that tomorrow. Would you suggest printing out show_free_areas();
> there too? I don't know what kind of an overhead that will generate on
> subsequent stack traces.
I don't think it'd help much - we know what's happening.
It would be interesting to keep increasing min_free_kbytes, see if you can
characterise the system's response to this setting.
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2004-11-10 1:39 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm4 -1 EAGAIN after allocation failure was: Re: Kernel 2.6.9 Multiple Page Allocation Failures Andrew Morton
2004-11-10 2:03 ` Stefan Schmidt
2004-11-10 2:21 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-11-10 4:24 ` Nick Piggin
2004-11-10 10:28 ` Stefan Schmidt
2004-11-10 12:06 ` Stefan Schmidt
2004-11-10 8:58 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-10 12:48 ` Stefan Schmidt
2004-11-10 10:56 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-11 1:23 ` Nick Piggin
2004-11-11 18:31 ` jhigdon
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