Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Oct 2003 11:53:57 -0200 (BRST) | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | Re: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed on 2.4.23-pre5 and pre7 |
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On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, [iso-8859-2] Martin MOKREJ© wrote:
> Hi, > it's a long time I haven't seen sthis messages, but it just happened that > I did on my laptop ASUS L3880C(1GB RAM). The message show on > 2.4.23-pre5+acpi20030918 and 2.4.23-pre7. The application get's killed on > 2.4.22-acpi20030918 too, just without the "0-order allocation" message. > I enabled in kernel the VM allocation debug option when configuring, but > apparently I have to turn it on also somewhere else. *Documentation* is > missing: 1) the help in "make config/menuconfig" etc. doesn't say anything, > the Documentation subdirectory doesn't say anything except "debug" as > kernel boot option on command-line(I did that too, but no change) and also > linux kernel-FAQ doesn't say either. :( > > How I tested? > `gzip -dc file | less' and pressed `G' to jump to the very end of the file. > The filesize is 280MB only. In a while, the mouse stopps moving for a > while, than the system gets sometimes unloaded, fan is raises it's RPM's up > and down town to time, and mouse cursor eventually does a move and then > less command gets killed. In dmesg I found: > > __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) > VM: killing process less
Did you try to add some swap to the system?
It seems you have none.
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