Re: page allocation failed in 2.4.24

[Mike Gabriel]

hi marcelo,

> How much swap do you have on this system and how much swap space is free
> when you start seeing the allocation failures?

oh yes, when i rebooted the host yesterday, i saw a glimpse of

  swap device /dev/XXX has no swap signature (or similar)

in the kernel-message.

i did a 

  mkswap /dev/XXX; swapon /dev/XXX

and now the system works fine (for now...)

thanks for your reply,
mike

> "vmstat 2" output (start it before running the tests) and "cat
> /proc/slabinfo" output (before and during the tests) are useful to find
> out what is happening.

thanks for this info!

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