Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Apr 2008 13:22:40 +0200 (CEST) | From | "Andreas K. Huettel" <> | Subject | Re: [tainted,fglrx] page allocation failure: basic meaning of log messages? |
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Hi,
#]> Apr 3 09:01:30 bellini hal-system-powe: page allocation failure. order:10, mode:0x4020 #]> Apr 3 09:01:30 bellini Pid: 327, comm: hal-system-powe Tainted: PF 2.6.24-gentoo-r3 #1 #]> Apr 3 09:01:30 bellini [<c0140c48>] __alloc_pages+0x2bd/0x2ce #]> Apr 3 09:01:30 bellini [<c0140c92>] __get_free_pages+0x39/0x47 #]> Apr 3 09:01:30 bellini [<f8adcd9e>] firegl_cmmqs_save_fb+0x8e/0x200 [fglrx] #] #]this messages doesn't mean bug, merely indicate allocation failure. #]if any other bad thind doen't happend, you can ignore it.
Swapping like mad without any obvious cause (500M swap in use, 1.5G RAM - - which is normally not such a big problem). This however stopped when I closed some memory-intensive applications (firefox, vmware).
Since then the machine is running without problems.
Thanks for the info, Andreas
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