On Saturday 08 December 2001 18:31 pm, Tim Harrell wrote:
I just upgraded my kernel from 2.4.4 to 2.4.7 following the guidelines of the recent SuSE kernel security update (syncookie exploit).
Everything was fine for several hours when all of a sudden I got these kernel error messages:
Dec 8 23:06:42 helios kernel: failed. Dec 8 23:06:42 helios kernel: __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed. Dec 8 23:06:42 helios kernel: __alloc_pages: 2-order allocation failed. Dec 8 23:06:42 helios kernel: __alloc_pages: 1-order allocation failed. Dec 8 23:06:42 helios kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed.
Take a look at your swap space. And make it larger if possible. I had these errors with kernels < 2.4.10 and they went away when I realized my swap space was a bit deficient. However, note that all storage management has changed as of 2.4.10 so you would be well advised to upgrade even further.
and loads more repeated like that.
After further examination I noticed that it happens whenever I go into X-CD-Roast and select any of the following:
CD/Image Info Read Tracks Verify Tracks Master Tracks
all of the other menus are ok.
For X-CD-Roast I got the SuSE 7.2 rpms from their site and installed it (they were more up to date than the SuSE versions that came on CD). I have 0.98 alpha 9 which is the latest version of X-CD-Roast.
Under 2.4.4 I've been happily burning CDs for some time.
Is there something screwy about 2.4.7 which might stop me from doing this? If that's the case I'd be looking at a pretty rapid downgrade :-(
I could try burning anyway but I don't like to ignore serious errors like this.
Regards,
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