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Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:01:23 +0100 (CET) From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz> To: Michael Guntsche <mike@...loops.com> Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: Page alloc problems with 2.6.32-rc kernels On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, Michael Guntsche wrote: > Hello list, > > I noticed that I get page alloc errors on one of my machines. > It is an old server I use as a fileserver with 512MB RAM. Before > 2.6.3[12] I did not see this problem at all. > This only seems to happens when I use mutt on this machine. > I know that it means I am running out of memory here, but I am wondering > why I did not see this before.... > > mutt: page allocation failure. order:1, mode:0x20 > Pid: 21746, comm: mutt Not tainted 2.6.32-rc5 #2 > Call Trace: > [<c11981ef>] ? printk+0x18/0x21 > [<c1050945>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x417/0x4d8 > [<c1069edc>] cache_alloc_refill+0x250/0x496 > [<c106a1c6>] __kmalloc+0xa4/0xa8 > [<c110ddef>] tty_buffer_request_room+0x88/0x11d > [<c110dfb8>] tty_insert_flip_string+0x27/0x93 > [<c110e8d9>] pty_write+0x24/0x4a > [<c110a24f>] n_tty_write+0x163/0x3ab > [<c1020960>] ? default_wake_function+0x0/0xd > [<c1107f3c>] tty_write+0x129/0x1c2 > [<c110a0ec>] ? n_tty_write+0x0/0x3ab > [<c106cfe0>] vfs_write+0x8e/0x142 > [<c1107e13>] ? tty_write+0x0/0x1c2 > [<c106d13d>] sys_write+0x3d/0x6b > [<c1002bb5>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb This is a consequence of more general problem in the allocator, and is probably not tty-specific. Please see the thread below http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/22/128 -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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