Re: kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed

[Valerio Vanni <valerio.vanni@inwind.it>]

On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 19:40:08 +0200, Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
wrote:
>> as before) or the kernel is in some way locked up (in particular: is
>> it necessary/better to reboot? Is there some risk of filesystem
>> corruption?).
>
>It's memory allocation failures.  This might not work until memory is
>free but it shouldn't kill the kernel of be a huge problem if it's
>just the result of one ore more processes being memory hungry

I'm blaming myself for not having given a closer look before shutting
down the machine.
But, as I said, the shut down happened regularly. Later, to be sure, i
ran an fsck on all partitions and they were ok.

>It could also occur if there is a memory leak, in which case there is
>a bug that needs to be fixed and a reboot would be needed (I would
>only suspect that if it did it often and processes were not using much
>memory though).

It was the first time: this machine had been running on the same
kernel for six month with very long uptimes interrupted only by ups
control daemon (during blackouts).

Ah, no: the kernel had been changed about one month ago, but it was
the same version (2.4.26) and the same .config (except ext3 support
which I moved from modules to kernel itself).


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