Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:52:13 -0700 | From | Stephen Hemminger <> | Subject | Re: X or AF_UNIX and order 3 allocation |
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On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:51:44 -0700 (PDT) David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com> > Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:10:55 -0700 > > > Hi, Guys: > > > > Not sure if the problem is caused by X or kernel, but this is what > > It seems to be the b44 driver doing a large huge order allocation. > > That driver only asks for (1536 + 30 + 64) bytes, so I suppose part of > the problem is that SLAB is using an order 3 allocation to satisfy > that. >
The chip needs memory below 1G for DMA, perhaps low memory is getting exhausted.
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