Re: 2.6.9 page allocation failures

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu Oct 28 2004 - 04:24:16 EST


Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I see following page allocation failures while running IO intensive
> tests on 2.6.9. My tests didn't fail, so I guess its okay. But
> I never saw this before.
>
> Its on a 4-way AMD64 machine with 7GB RAM. Tests create 10 4GB files
> on 10 disks (one filesystem per disk) in parallel. (dd if=/dev/zero ...)

Tried increasing /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes?
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