Re: page allocation failure
From: Nathan Scott (nathans_at_sgi.com)
Date: 01/20/04
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Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 17:00:52 +1100 To: Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@yahoo.co.uk>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, hch@infradead.org
On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 07:38:37PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > It has happened three times now and on all occasions, I was untarring a
> > huge file on an XFS partition. I assume the problem is something to do
> > with VM. The machine has 1GB of RAM which should be plenty. For the
> ...
> You probably should apply this patch to tell us where the allocation
> failures are coming from. Make sure that CONFIG_KALLSYMS is enabled in
> kernel config.
We do have known issues in XFS on 2.6 with handling certain VM
allocation failures -- maybe hitting that here. Christoph has
been looking at making XFS do a better job there; __GFP_NOFAIL
allocations failing seem to be the worst issue for us - on the
occasions I've hit that though, its always immediately fatal.
cheers.
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