Very Computer

> My test is very simple. I have started X-Window and XMMS in order to
> listen to some songs. Then, I have executed

>    dd if=/dev/hdc1 of=/dev/null

> as root within a terminal, and I have got the following a few seconds
> later:

> Sep 25 22:05:55 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation
> failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60
> Sep 25 22:06:00 localhost last message repeated 2 times
> Sep 25 22:06:00 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation
> failed (gfp=0xf0/0) from c012ff60
> Sep 25 22:06:00 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation
> failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60
> Sep 25 22:06:00 localhost last message repeated 2 times
> Sep 25 22:06:00 localhost kernel: VM: killing process xmms
> Sep 25 22:06:00 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation
> failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60
> Sep 25 22:06:04 localhost last message repeated 11 times
> Sep 25 22:06:04 localhost kernel: VM: killing process xmms
> Sep 25 22:06:04 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation
> failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60
> Sep 25 22:06:04 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation
> failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60
> Sep 25 22:06:04 localhost kernel: VM: killing process kmix
> Sep 25 22:06:04 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation
> failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60
> Sep 25 22:06:04 localhost last message repeated 2 times
> Sep 25 22:06:04 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation
> failed (gfp=0xf0/0) from c012ff60
> Sep 25 22:06:04 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation
> failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60
> Sep 25 22:06:04 localhost last message repeated 3 times
> Sep 25 22:06:04 localhost kernel: VM: killing process gpm
> Sep 25 22:06:05 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation
> failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60
> Sep 25 22:06:06 localhost last message repeated 6 times
> sep 25 22:06:06 localhost su(pam_unix)[2548]: session closed for user
> root
> Sep 25 22:06:06 localhost kernel: VM: killing process sendmail
> Sep 25 22:06:07 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation
> failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60
> Sep 25 22:06:07 localhost kernel: VM: killing process konsole
> Sep 25 22:06:07 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation
> failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60
> Sep 25 22:06:07 localhost kernel: VM: killing process named
> Sep 25 22:06:07 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation
> failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60
> Sep 25 22:06:07 localhost kernel: VM: killing process xmms
> Sep 25 22:06:07 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation
> failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60
> Sep 25 22:06:07 localhost last message repeated 3 times
> Sep 25 22:06:07 localhost kernel: VM: killing process ksmserver
> Sep 25 22:06:07 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation
> failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60
> Sep 25 22:06:07 localhost kernel: VM: killing process kdeinit
> Sep 25 22:06:08 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation
> failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60
> Sep 25 22:06:08 localhost kernel: VM: killing process X
> Sep 25 22:06:08 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation
> failed (gfp=0xf0/0) from c012ff60
> Sep 25 22:06:08 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation
> failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60
> f60
> Sep 25 22:06:08 localhost last message repeated 2 times
> Sep 25 22:06:08 localhost kernel: VM: killing process kdeinit
> Sep 25 22:06:08 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation
> failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60
> Sep 25 22:06:08 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation
> failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60
> Sep 25 22:06:08 localhost kernel: VM: killing process startkde
> Sep 25 22:06:09 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation
> failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60
> Sep 25 22:06:09 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation
> failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60
> Sep 25 22:06:09 localhost kernel: VM: killing process named
> Sep 25 22:06:09 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation
> failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012ff60

> The /dev/hdc1 partition capacity is 6 GB. My root partition is on
> /dev/hda5. My computer is a Pentium III with 384 MB of RAM.

> BTW, the same test in 2.4.6 works fine without any problem.

> Regards.

> --
> D. Juan Piernas Cnovas
> Departamento de Ingeniera y Tecnologa de Computadores
> Facultad de Informtica. Universidad de Murcia
> Campus de Espinardo - 30080 Murcia (SPAIN)
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> > Juan,

> > It is a known problem which we are looking into.

> > I need some information which may help confirm a guess of mine:

> > Do you have swap available ?
> Yes, the /dev/hda6 partition, that is 257000 KB in size.

> > If so, there was available anonymous memory to be swapped out ?

> Anonymous memory? Sorry, but I do not understand this question. Could
> you redo it?