On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 08:30:09AM +0200, Ruben Rubio Rey wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Im getting an error: "perl5.8.5: page allocation failure. order:4,
> mode:0x50".
>
> What does it means?
> Is it dangerous?
> What may I do to fix it?
>
> Im using kernel 2.6.9-1.667smp and XFS filesystem.
You have a _heavily_ fragmented file in an XFS filesystem...
there's work underway to prevent this from happening, but for
now you can run xfs_fsr to reduce fragmentation. XFS retries
the allocation until it succeeds, so its far from optimal but
not dangerous.
cheers.
--
Nathan
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