linux-kernel - Re: What to do with this message (2.6.30.1) ?

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Date:	Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:21:59 +0200
From:	Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@...net.com>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc:	Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Subject: Re: What to do with this message (2.6.30.1) ?

On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:53:29 -0700 (PDT)
David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Jul 2009, Jesse Brandeburg wrote:
> > Try increasing /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes
> > 
> 
> That won't do anything but cause the failure to happen earlier because 
> GFP_HIGH will be restricted to even less ZONE_NORMAL memory.
> 
> This is a duplicate of http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13648 
> which also only affects e1000.
> 
> Stephan, perhaps you can try with a CONFIG_SLUB kernel and enable both 
> CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG and CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON?  If that doesn't reveal any 
> additional information, this sounds like a candidate for kmemleak.

I just enabled that, fortunately we can play some with this box ;-)
I will inform you tommorrow what happened.
Thanks, stay tuned.

-- 
Regards,
Stephan
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