Re: reiserfs corruption: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed

From: Muli Ben-Yehuda (mulix_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Sun 25 Jan 2004 - 10:30:15 IST


On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 10:21:29AM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:

> >From looking at the source I could only ssee that it means "something is
> fishy".

0 order allocation failed means the kernel couldn't allocate even one
page of memory. Unless the machines are pretty much out of memory,
that should never happen.

> In one case replacing reiserfs with ext3 made the problem go away.
> Naturally this is a drastic solution that I don't want to take.
>
> Anybody seen this lately?

Actually, yes, on lkml, unless my memory is playing tricks on me. But
I don't remember the details, sorry. Try the archives...

Which kernel is this with?

Cheers,
Muli

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