On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:00:52AM -0800, chrysippus@operamail.com wrote:
On a 4GB RAM edge server running 12.2 w/ kernel 3.4.28/x86_64 I'm seeing an increasing frequency of "SLAB: Unable to allocate memory on node 0" (http://pastebin.com/xDPgtut8) errors in syslog, e.g.:
cat /var/log/messages ... Feb 28 09:24:30 core kernel: [777611.883853] The following is only an harmless informational message. Feb 28 09:24:30 core kernel: [777611.883860] Unless you get a _continuous_flood_ of these messages it means Feb 28 09:24:30 core kernel: [777611.883864] everything is working fine. Allocations from irqs cannot be Feb 28 09:24:30 core kernel: [777611.883868] perfectly reliable and the kernel is designed to handle that. Feb 28 09:24:30 core kernel: [777611.883873] swapper/2: page allocation failure. order:4, mode:0x20
Can you reproduce this without the closed source kernel module you have loaded installed? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+owner@opensuse.org