2.5.13 error: kswapd: page allocation failure. order:0 mode:0x20

From: Jurriaan on Alpha (thunder7@xs4all.nl)
Date: Mon May 06 2002 - 00:18:32 EST

Suddenly, after 36 hours uptime, the console was flooded with this
message.

May 6 06:54:24 alpha -- MARK --
May 6 07:11:28 alpha kernel: apd: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20
May 6 07:11:28 alpha kernel: kswapd: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20
May 6 07:11:28 alpha last message repeated 296 times
May 6 07:11:37 alpha kernel: x20
May 6 07:11:37 alpha kernel: ssh: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20
May 6 07:11:37 alpha last message repeated 314 times
May 6 07:11:39 alpha kernel: apd: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20
May 6 07:11:39 alpha kernel: kswapd: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20
May 6 07:11:39 alpha last message repeated 296 times
May 6 07:11:39 alpha kernel: ssh: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20
May 6 07:11:40 alpha last message repeated 73 times
May 6 07:11:46 alpha kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped.
May 6 07:11:46 alpha kernel: Kernel log daemon terminating.
May 6 07:11:46 alpha exiting on signal 15
May 6 07:13:35 alpha syslogd 1.4.1#10: restart.

Given the fact that this alpha has 1.5 Gb memory and 2 Gb swap, I feel
'out-of-memory' shouldn't happen (I was running mutt, slrn, some ssh
sessions - nothing big).

after reboot:
MemTotal: 1553808 kB
MemFree: 1397688 kB
MemShared: 0 kB
Buffers: 71584 kB
Cached: 23848 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 25064 kB
Inactive: 92616 kB
HighTotal: 0 kB
HighFree: 0 kB
LowTotal: 1553808 kB
LowFree: 1397688 kB
SwapTotal: 2292720 kB
SwapFree: 2292720 kB
Dirty: 14760 kB
Writeback: 0 kB

Is this report useful to someone? If more info is needed, just ask me.

Jurriaan 

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