VM error

[Yang Xiao]

On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 03:09:33 +0530 (IST), Jeetendra Mirchandani
<jeetu at cse.iitb.ac.in> wrote:
> 
> 
> Any idea what could cause this error-
> I am not running Fedora here, but still if someone could help.....
> 
> __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
> VM: killing process apache
> __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
> __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
> VM: killing process screen
> __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1f0/0)
> __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
> VM: killing process automount
> __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
> VM: killing process mysqld
> __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
> VM: killing process bash
> __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0xf0/0)
> __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
> VM: killing process week9opt
> __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
> VM: killing process week9opt
> 
> one things is that i have a swap of 256Mb with a RAM of 512 MB. Could this
> be the problem?
> 
> --
> 
> Regards,
> Jeetu
Might well be, what does "vmstat 2" and "free -m " say?

Yang