Re: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed on 2.4.23-pre5 and pre7

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, [iso-8859-2] Martin MOKREJ© wrote:

> 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

Did you try to add some swap to the system? 

It seems you have none.

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