On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 10:30:15AM +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 10:21:29AM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> 
> > >From looking at the source I could only ssee that it means "something is
> > fishy". 
> 
> 0 order allocation failed means the kernel couldn't allocate even one
> page of memory. Unless the machines are pretty much out of memory,
> that should never happen. 
> 
> > In one case replacing reiserfs with ext3 made the problem go away.
> > Naturally this is a drastic solution that I don't want to take.
> > 
> > Anybody seen this lately?
> 
> Actually, yes, on lkml, unless my memory is playing tricks on me. But
> I don't remember the details, sorry. Try the archives...  

Makes some sense. I did see a number of huge processes (e.g: tar eating
out almost all of my memory, and likewise "proxymap" of postfix).

I'm positive that the tar process was run as non-root without any
privilges.

I also saw VM killing messages. A number of processes managed to get
killed around the time I saw that message.

> 
> Which kernel is this with? 
> 

This time: 2.4.23-pre6 . But I also had something similar with 2.4.23

And to Shachar: thanks, I tryed that. But the corruption re-appeared too
soon :-(

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