Re: FW: Page Allocation Failure, Why?? Bug in kernel??

[Andrew Morton]

On Thu, 1 Jun 2006 15:07:09 +0530
"Abu M. Muttalib" <abum@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I tried to run an application, try-sound.c. In the course of the run of the
> application I repeatedly got page allocation failure, despite the fact that
> enough pages are free. Why this is so, is it a bug in mm subsystem of Linux
> kernel 2.6.13?
> 
> The Page allocation failure is as follows:
> 
> insmod: page allocation failure. order:5, mode:0xd0

We don't have a snowball's chance of allocating 32 physically-contiguous
pages.

What sound driver?

Did it actually work OK, or was there userspace-visible failure?
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