On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 09:45:53AM +0100, Wojciech Kromer wrote: > >i have some problems with using fec device on my custom 8250 board > >while sending a lot of data (at least 300MB) through this device causes > >lack of memory > >sending same amount of data through loopback works fine > > > >i'm using 2.4.19 kernel > >any idea? > > cached memory keeps growing slowly, and free is going down same way, > after putting ~300MB ftp data (from 8250 board to another host), VM > starts killing some applications > > same situation is with latest linuxppc_2_4_devel kernel from denx.de, > but there is additional information from kernel > > <5>__alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) > <5>__alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) > <5>__alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) > <5>__alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) > <5>__alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) > <4>VM: killing process sshd > > what's wrong ???
It means that this box is really out of memory. Could you provide output from utility called 'free' and from file /proc/slabinfo at two points of time: 1) when you just booted your boax and 2) just before it starts failing. Thanks, Eugene. ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
