__alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0xf0/0)

[m.roth2006 at rcn.com]

I'd suggest, when this happens, run top, and see what's going on.

Also, how much swap space do you have?

 mark

---- Original message ----
>Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:54:54 -0600
>From: Joshua Gimer <jgimer at gmail.com>  
>Subject: Re: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0xf0/0)  
>To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list at redhat.com>
>
>Without knowing what processes are being killed, my guess would be
>that the system is running out of physical memory and malloc cannot
>allocate anything new for these processes. Some of which may be system
>processes that are required for the system to function (init?)
>
>Josh
>
>On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Cholla muthu <ncmuthu2002 at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
>>
>> Yes, Getting a message that few processes getting killed.
>>
>> Every time different processes are getting killed.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Muthu.
>>
>> --- On Thu, 12/3/09, Joshua Gimer <jgimer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> From: Joshua Gimer <jgimer at gmail.com>
>>> Subject: Re: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0xf0/0)
>>> To: "General Red Hat Linux discussion list" <redhat-list at redhat.com>
>>> Date: Thursday, 12 March, 2009, 7:46 AM
>>> After this messages in
>>> /var/log/messages, is there anything about
>>> processes being killed?
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Cholla muthu <ncmuthu2002 at yahoo.co.in>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > I am getting the message "__alloc_pages: 0-order
>>> allocation failed (gfp=0xf0/0)" in /var/log/messages on a
>>> redhat 6.2 system and becomes unresponsive. After this I
>>> need to hard reboot the system. Could you please help on
>>> resolving this?
>>> >
>>> > OS : Redhat 6.2
>>> > Kernel : Linux 2.4.34.5-1-i686-HUGEMEM
>>> > Mem : 8GB
>>> > Swap : 4GB
>>> >
>>> > Thanks,
>>> > Muthu.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
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