swapper: page allocation failure

[Tom Mitchell]

On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 05:23:50PM +0100, Dave Jones wrote:

> On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 23:06, Tom Mitchell wrote:
> > What do I need to make a usefull bug report?

> > ----
> > Apr 25 13:19:44 xtl2 kernel: inode_doinit_with_dentry:  context_to_sid(system_u:object_r:at_spool_t) returned 22 for dev=hda2 ino=1458196
> > Apr 25 13:42:16 xtl2 ntpd[1214]: synchronized to 192.168.0.51, stratum=2
> > Apr 25 13:44:04 xtl2 kernel: swapper: page allocation failure. order:1, mode:0x20
....

> > The machine did not fall over.....
....
> Should be fixed soon. I'm fairly certain this is the same issue as
> mentioned earlier. For some reason ext3 inodes fill up the entire ram,
> then the vm struggles trying to do an order 1 allocation (2 contiguous
> 4KB pages).
> This was pretty much the same failure mode I saw when updatedb blew up
> my box, except it was the e100 driver complaining for the same reason
> (no memory).

Thanks for the follow up... I have been looking for a way to trigger
the problem but have had no luck.



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