Re: Vanilla-Kernel 3 - page allocation failure

[Andi Kleen]

Philipp Herz - Profihost AG <p.herz@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> After updating kernel (x86_64) to stable version 3 there are a few
> messages appearing in the kernel log such as
>
> kworker/0:1: page allocation failure: order:1, mode:0x20
> mysql: page allocation failure: order:1, mode:0x20
> php5: page allocation failure: order:1, mode:0x20

You just ran out of memory.

The problem here seems to be that the kernel is unable to communicate
in a language you can understand. 

How do you think the message should have been phrased to make the 
issue more clear?

-Andi
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