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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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
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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.