Jeff Dike wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 11:08:44AM -0400, Christopher S. Aker wrote:
>> 2.6.21.1-um
>>
>> Mem-info:
>> Normal per-cpu:
>> CPU 0: Hot: hi: 90, btch: 15 usd: 14 Cold: hi: 30, btch: 7 usd: 24
>> Active:62085 inactive:6442 dirty:4693 writeback:2791 unstable:0
>> free:196 slab:3980 ma
On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 11:08:44AM -0400, Christopher S. Aker wrote:
> 2.6.21.1-um
>
> Mem-info:
> Normal per-cpu:
> CPU 0: Hot: hi: 90, btch: 15 usd: 14 Cold: hi: 30, btch: 7 usd: 24
> Active:62085 inactive:6442 dirty:4693 writeback:2791 unstable:0
> free:196 slab:3980 mapped:12235 pagetables:241
This failure means that an interrupt handler attempted to allocate
memory with GFP_ATOMIC, but you're fresh out of memory. Specifically,
your free memory is below 1/2 of the low watermark for ZONE normal. At
this point, Linux's page allocator reports it's out of memory. Direct
page reclamation (whi
2.6.21.1-um
Mem-info:
Normal per-cpu:
CPU 0: Hot: hi: 90, btch: 15 usd: 14 Cold: hi: 30, btch: 7 usd: 24
Active:62085 inactive:6442 dirty:4693 writeback:2791 unstable:0
free:196 slab:3980 mapped:12235 pagetables:241 bounce:0
Normal free:784kB min:2208kB low:2760kB high:3312kB active:248340kB
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