__alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed on 2.4.23-pre5 and pre7
From: Martin MOKREJŠ
Date: Sun Oct 12 2003 - 18:48:15 EST
Hi,
it's a long time I haven't seen sthis messages, but it just happened that
I did on my laptop ASUS L3880C(1GB RAM). The message show on
2.4.23-pre5+acpi20030918 and 2.4.23-pre7. The application get's killed on
2.4.22-acpi20030918 too, just without the "0-order allocation" message.
I enabled in kernel the VM allocation debug option when configuring, but
apparently I have to turn it on also somewhere else. *Documentation* is
missing: 1) the help in "make config/menuconfig" etc. doesn't say anything,
the Documentation subdirectory doesn't say anything except "debug" as
kernel boot option on command-line(I did that too, but no change) and also
linux kernel-FAQ doesn't say either. :(
How I tested?
`gzip -dc file | less' and pressed `G' to jump to the very end of the file.
The filesize is 280MB only. In a while, the mouse stopps moving for a
while, than the system gets sometimes unloaded, fan is raises it's RPM's up
and down town to time, and mouse cursor eventually does a move and then
less command gets killed. In dmesg I found:
__alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
VM: killing process less
I can reproduce this. Here's vmstat output started before retrying
this command:
# vmstat 1
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- ----cpu----
r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa
2 0 0 13412 3748 266364 0 0 14 2 167 132 1 0 99 0
1 0 0 12740 2992 257324 0 0 4356 0 233 5382 85 13 2 0
1 0 0 12484 2996 245748 0 0 4996 0 242 6193 96 4 0 0
2 0 0 12332 3004 234552 0 0 4744 0 238 5944 91 5 4 0
1 0 0 12136 3008 222468 0 0 3844 0 226 6420 94 3 3 0
1 0 0 11728 3008 207736 0 0 1152 0 180 7856 93 7 0 0
1 0 0 11680 3008 192876 0 0 1024 0 187 7743 95 5 0 0
2 0 0 12052 3008 178152 0 0 1152 0 257 7619 93 7 0 0
3 0 0 12304 3012 164052 0 0 1028 0 214 7413 90 8 2 0
1 0 0 12440 3012 150084 0 0 1152 0 219 7429 93 7 0 0
1 0 0 12392 3012 136232 0 0 1152 0 180 7232 93 7 0 0
2 0 0 12212 2924 123340 0 0 1024 0 188 6848 93 7 0 0
2 0 0 12080 2928 111200 0 0 900 0 189 6378 84 15 1 0
1 0 0 11796 2928 99208 0 0 896 0 185 6378 86 14 0 0
2 0 0 12420 2928 85944 0 0 896 0 187 6571 90 10 0 0
1 0 0 12344 2964 72936 0 0 1024 64 192 6794 98 2 0 0
1 0 0 11812 2968 60808 0 0 900 0 177 6569 96 2 2 0
1 0 0 13812 2840 47708 0 0 896 0 177 5962 84 16 0 0
1 0 0 12816 1784 38868 0 0 896 0 177 5707 91 9 0 0
2 0 0 12956 1804 26876 0 0 916 0 186 6172 87 13 0 0
2 0 0 13924 1764 14360 0 0 1024 0 179 6171 95 5 0 0
1 0 0 13096 1708 10340 0 0 388 0 173 2527 54 46 0 0
2 0 0 12524 1676 5004 0 0 512 0 178 3201 57 43 0 0
2 2 0 10864 1712 5216 0 0 376 0 241 822 36 64 0 0
here system starts to block
4 0 0 11132 1732 4672 0 0 376 0 281 256 7 93 0 0
4 1 0 10992 1760 3828 0 0 1720 0 467 1942 12 88 0 0
8 1 0 10292 1788 4268 0 0 500 0 263 326 7 93 0 0
6 6 0 10324 1788 4024 0 0 1068 0 254 1029 6 94 0 0
10 0 0 10284 1800 4048 0 0 128 0 187 78 1 99 0 0
3 6 0 10488 1788 3908 0 0 1392 0 256 965 0 100 0 0
7 0 0 10284 1800 4088 0 0 552 0 256 596 0 100 0 0
6 0 0 10496 1796 3844 0 0 592 0 204 208 0 100 0 0
6 0 0 10460 1808 3856 0 0 68 0 168 74 0 100 0 0
7 1 0 10380 1812 3976 0 0 340 0 182 90 0 100 0 0
8 0 0 10364 1816 3964 0 0 36 0 165 61 0 100 0 0
0 7 0 885812 1776 4756 0 0 944 0 235 206 0 21 79 0
1 5 0 884196 1840 6280 0 0 1592 0 253 246 0 0 100 0
less is killed already:
__alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
VM: killing process less
The machine is Intel P4, HIGHMEM(4GB), HIGHMEM IO enabled kernel, acpi
patch 20030918 over 2.4.23-pre5 kernel tree. Same with 2.4.23-pre7(plain).
Then I tried old 2.4.22 with same acpi patch, The machine is much better
behaving, mouse cursor always moves, and vmstat during the command shows
that kernel managed to reclaim some memory few times, but then it also eats
100% CPU time and finally kill less too, but with diffent message:
$ vmstat 1
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- ----cpu----
r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa
1 0 0 626472 15352 96152 0 0 1077 139 189 1350 15 14 71 0
2 0 0 602108 15360 103192 0 0 7048 0 263 8649 81 9 10 0
3 0 0 577536 15368 110232 0 0 7048 0 300 9220 86 8 6 0
2 0 0 553100 15372 117144 0 0 6916 0 278 9087 92 6 2 0
2 0 0 528960 15380 124056 0 0 6920 0 246 8671 87 6 7 0
2 0 0 505352 15388 130840 0 0 6792 0 269 8415 86 9 5 0
0 1 0 481632 15396 137564 0 0 6728 0 230 8495 89 4 7 0
3 0 0 459948 15400 143896 0 0 6340 0 297 7778 81 14 5 0
3 0 0 436500 15408 151960 0 0 8072 0 302 7731 86 9 5 0
2 0 0 414004 15424 158488 0 0 6544 0 242 7941 85 10 5 0
1 0 0 391984 15428 164760 0 0 6276 0 219 7827 91 5 4 0
2 0 0 370968 15436 170904 0 0 6152 0 243 7480 86 7 7 0
2 0 0 349436 15440 177048 0 0 6148 0 199 7907 89 7 4 0
2 0 0 328976 15448 182808 0 0 5768 0 198 7262 89 3 8 0
2 0 0 308076 15452 188824 0 0 6020 0 194 7342 94 3 3 0
2 0 0 287540 15460 194456 0 0 5640 12 199 7362 89 7 4 0
2 0 0 267584 15464 200216 0 0 5764 0 191 6998 85 10 5 0
0 1 0 247700 15472 206380 0 0 6168 0 224 6814 83 13 4 0
2 0 0 232376 15476 210840 0 0 4468 0 295 5448 69 15 16 0
2 0 0 215128 15480 215832 0 0 4996 0 195 6063 74 24 2 0
1 0 0 195784 15484 221336 0 0 5508 0 248 6834 91 7 2 0
1 0 0 177956 15488 226456 0 0 5124 0 373 6346 81 14 5 0
2 0 0 160188 15496 231576 0 0 5128 0 224 6267 83 12 5 0
1 0 0 141696 15504 236824 0 0 5256 0 250 6677 88 9 3 0
2 0 0 123408 15508 242072 0 0 5252 0 205 6515 93 3 4 0
2 0 0 105620 15516 247192 0 0 5128 0 266 6458 92 3 5 0
2 0 0 87876 15520 252312 0 0 5124 0 189 6244 92 3 5 0
1 0 0 69964 15524 257432 0 0 5124 0 185 6331 96 3 1 0
2 0 0 52352 15528 262424 0 0 4996 0 179 6228 92 5 3 0
1 0 0 35304 15536 267416 0 0 5000 0 182 5958 86 8 6 0
1 0 0 18372 15540 272280 0 0 4868 0 179 5960 93 4 3 0
1 0 0 10048 11096 273272 0 0 4868 0 181 6131 97 2 1 0
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- ----cpu----
r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa
3 0 0 10512 6800 266564 0 0 4484 0 173 5720 89 10 1 0
2 0 0 10024 6804 255556 0 0 4740 0 176 6123 92 6 2 0
1 0 0 9488 6808 242116 0 0 1796 0 131 7398 94 5 1 0
1 0 0 9516 6808 227524 0 0 1024 0 117 7731 98 2 0 0
1 0 0 9564 6792 213204 0 0 1152 0 119 7596 97 3 0 0
1 0 0 9564 6792 199124 0 0 1024 0 117 7472 97 3 0 0
1 0 0 9568 6796 185428 0 0 1028 0 119 7278 94 5 1 0
1 0 0 9500 6804 171988 0 0 1160 0 121 7170 94 6 0 0
1 0 0 9564 6800 158424 0 0 1024 0 117 7172 94 6 0 0
1 0 0 9540 6804 145368 0 0 1028 0 119 6948 95 3 2 0
1 0 0 9464 6804 132312 0 0 896 0 115 6975 95 5 0 0
1 0 0 9476 6804 119384 0 0 1024 0 117 6873 95 5 0 0
1 0 0 9500 6804 106584 0 0 1024 0 117 6791 92 8 0 0
1 0 0 9480 6804 93912 0 0 896 0 115 6728 96 4 0 0
3 0 0 9508 6808 81624 0 0 900 0 116 6505 92 6 2 0
2 0 0 9568 6808 69208 0 0 1024 0 115 6580 90 10 0 0
2 0 0 9492 6808 57048 0 0 896 0 117 6481 97 3 0 0
2 0 0 10496 6808 44120 0 0 1024 0 117 6350 96 4 0 0
2 0 0 10812 5964 33464 0 0 900 0 117 6253 94 6 0 0
2 0 0 9816 5960 26348 0 0 768 0 113 5350 89 11 0 0
3 0 0 10528 5960 17192 0 0 768 0 113 4786 81 19 0 0
3 0 0 10228 5960 16552 0 0 128 0 141 1239 50 50 0 0
2 0 0 9188 5968 15784 0 0 136 0 227 1191 48 52 0 0
1 0 0 5236 5968 15804 0 0 276 0 231 2210 55 45 0 0
3 0 0 5232 5968 15620 0 0 92 0 215 257 5 95 0 0
2 0 0 5236 5968 15620 0 0 84 0 136 160 0 100 0 0
0 0 0 903664 5968 15872 0 0 324 0 164 360 0 36 64 0
0 0 0 903668 5968 15872 0 0 0 0 192 220 0 0 100 0
0 0 0 903648 5988 15872 0 0 0 36 107 36 0 0 100 0
0 0 0 903648 5988 15872 0 0 0 0 134 95 0 0 100 0
0 0 0 903648 5988 15872 0 0 0 0 134 84 0 0 100 0
0 0 0 903648 5988 15872 0 0 0 0 107 22 0 9 91 0
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- ----cpu----
dmesg shows only:
Out of Memory: Killed process 1995 (less).
So the __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed is not showing up on
2.4.22, but no idea if that's better/worse.
--
Martin Mokrejs <mmokrejs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <m.mokrejs@xxxxxx>
PGP5.0i key is at http://www.natur.cuni.cz/~mmokrejs
MIPS / Institute for Bioinformatics <http://mips.gsf.de>
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