Computer lockup - __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0xf0/0)
Hello I went to my wife's computer (stock SuSE 9.0, 2.4.21-99 Athlon kernel) and it was locked up. I had to hard boot it since it did not respond to ssh or telnet. I checked the log file and the only suspicious items were these messages -> May 31 23:05:49 aria kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0xf0/0) May 31 23:05:58 aria kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) May 31 23:05:58 aria kernel: VM: killing process sh The previous message was six minutes before regarding the hourly cron job May 31 22:59:06 aria /USR/SBIN/CRON[19537]: (root) CMD ( rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly) The only thing the computer was doing at the time was either running a screen saver (KDE - random) or having the screen totally blank (probably the latter). I looked for this error message on the archives and it appears to be that the system could not allocate more memory. Is it possible that a screen saver is toxic? Or can this be indicative of a RAM failure? The machine had only been on for one day. Any hints are thoroughly appreciated TIA&cheers
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 01 June 2004 1:25 pm, expatriate wrote:
Hello I went to my wife's computer (stock SuSE 9.0, 2.4.21-99 Athlon kernel) and it was locked up. I had to hard boot it since it did not respond to ssh or telnet. I checked the log file and the only suspicious items were these messages ->
May 31 23:05:49 aria kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0xf0/0) May 31 23:05:58 aria kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) May 31 23:05:58 aria kernel: VM: killing process sh
This basically means that you ran out of memory. One of the SUSE 9 kernels had a problem that caused this. I think it was the -99 one. You should do an update. - -- James Oakley Engineering - SolutionInc Ltd. joakley@solutioninc.com http://www.solutioninc.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAvK/b4U2uQswGyDcRAm5HAJsFRXUMig03296+CvFAbIjPBuD3OgCgpdnP 4TSlNPGbl65KntX6pfK7mXg= =jQS9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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