linux-kernel - Re: iwlagn: order 2 page allocation failures

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Date:	Wed, 9 Sep 2009 19:19:12 +0200
From:	Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>
To:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
Cc:	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	ipw3945-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	cl@...ux-foundation.org, Assaf Krauss <assaf.krauss@...el.com>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	Mohamed Abbas <mohamed.abbas@...el.com>
Subject: Re: iwlagn: order 2 page allocation failures

On Wednesday 09 September 2009, you wrote:
> The problem with this theory is that the patches have been in since Nov
> 2008 but reports are only showing up now.  Frans, how sure are you that
> this is a recent problem? Is it readily reproducible?

The only thing I can say here is that I've never seen the issue before 
(and thanks to logcheck I certainly would have).
The laptop is in constant use, but I rarely stress the memory like that. 
Swap is almost always at 0.

I would have to make an effort to try and reproduce it, probably by again 
creating some very large images and loading those in konqueror, maybe 
while streaming a movie over wireless or something.

Thanks for your efforts,
FJP
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