Re: [tainted,fglrx] page allocation failure: basic meaning of logmessages?

[Andreas K. Huettel]

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Hi, 

#]> Apr  3 09:01:30 bellini hal-system-powe: page allocation failure. order:10, mode:0x4020
#]> Apr  3 09:01:30 bellini Pid: 327, comm: hal-system-powe Tainted: PF       2.6.24-gentoo-r3 #1
#]> Apr  3 09:01:30 bellini [<c0140c48>] __alloc_pages+0x2bd/0x2ce
#]> Apr  3 09:01:30 bellini [<c0140c92>] __get_free_pages+0x39/0x47
#]> Apr  3 09:01:30 bellini [<f8adcd9e>] firegl_cmmqs_save_fb+0x8e/0x200 [fglrx]
#]
#]this messages doesn't mean bug, merely indicate allocation failure.
#]if any other bad thind doen't happend, you can ignore it.

Swapping like mad without any obvious cause (500M swap in use, 1.5G RAM 
- - which is normally not such a big problem). This however stopped when 
I closed some memory-intensive applications (firefox, vmware).

Since then the machine is running without problems. 

Thanks for the info, 
Andreas



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