Re: Memory management problem with 2.6.0

From: caszonyi
Date: Wed Dec 31 2003 - 23:05:54 EST


On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Andrew Morton wrote:

> caszonyi@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > I have a small script:
> > #!/bin/sh
> > umount /mnt/cdrom
> > eject /dev/hdb
> > echo "Invalid system disk"
> > echo "Insert and press any key when ready"
> > read junk
> > eject -t /dev/hdb
> > sleep 1
> > mount /mnt/cdrom
> > /usr/sbin/hdparm -E 10 /dev/hdb
> >
> > It works all the time but today gave me this:
> >
> > In the logs I had:
> > Dec 27 19:06:16 grinch kernel: eject: page allocation failure. order:4,
> > mode:0xd0
>
> Please, try
>
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.0/2.6.0-mm1/broken-out/cdrom-allocation-try-harder.patch
>
> and let me know?
>

for cdrom it *seems* to work.

The problem continues however for other applications
It is not specific to the ide-cd driver. The same problem happens
sometimes
with mplayer also

Dec 30 22:07:12 grinch kernel: mplayer: page allocation failure. order:4,
mode:0x21
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