Re: I have a blaze of 353 page allocation failures, all alike

[Christoph Lameter]

On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, Peter Kruse wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On 02/24/2011 01:01 PM, Peter Kruse wrote:
> > it took a while to find a date for a reboot... Unfortunately
> > it was not possible to get the early boot messages with the
> > kernel 2.6.32.23 since the compiled in log buffer is too
> > small. So we installed as you suggested a more recent kernel
> > 2.6.32.29 with a bigger log buffer, I attach the dmesg
> > of that, and hope that the information in there is useful.
> > We will keep an eye on that server with the newer kernel
> > to see if the allocation failures appear again.
>
> the server was running for a few without any more allocation
> failures with kernel 2.6.32.29 but at one point the server
> stopped responding, it was still possible for a while to
> get a login, and trying to kill some processes but that
> didn't succeed.  But after that even login was
> no longer possible so we had to reset it.
> I attach the call trace, I hope you can find out what is
> the problem.

The problem maybe that you have lots and lots of SCSI devices which
consume ZONE_DMA memory for their control structures. I guess that is
oversubscribing the 16M zone.

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