Re: kernel error : 'find /proc/ -type f | xargs -n 1 head -c 10>/dev/null'

From: Alexey Dobriyan
Date: Thu Jan 21 2010 - 15:35:47 EST


On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 08:16:59PM +0100, Toralf Förster wrote:
> I was inspired by http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/941115 .
>
> Running the command (se subject) as a normal user at a 2.6.32.4 kernel
> gives this in /var/log/messages:
>
> head: page allocation failure. order:9, mode:0xd0
> Pid: 2324, comm: head Not tainted 2.6.32.4 #1
> Call Trace:
> [<c106e2cc>] ? __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x4bc/0x5a0
> [<c108cf5a>] ? cache_alloc_refill+0x2ba/0x510
> [<c108d299>] ? __kmalloc+0xe9/0xf0
> [<c10aa755>] ? seq_read+0x195/0x370

Please, find out which file is causing this, if it's reproducible.
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