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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: major Linux 2.4 kernel bug
From: "I dont have one" <>
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 20:56:25 -0000
--- In  "Jesse Off" <> wrote:
>
> A lot of people have been noticing "__alloc_pages: 0-order allocation 
> failed" being printed by the kernel and subsequent kernel freezes in
low 
> memory conditions.  It turns out that the kernel actually has a lot
more 
> memory free when these messages appear and the intentional Linux
behavior 
> on out-of-memory condition is to randomly kill processes (*not* to lock 
> up with these messages).
> 
> If you can, please try the below patch.  If everything goes well with 
> testing this experimental patch, it will likely be in the next kernel. 
> (-ts10 now I think?)  Due to the severity of the bug, I wanted to
get this 
> patch out here as soon as I wrote it.
>


The patch worked like a charm, cleared up all my problems that I have
been having for the longest time, thanks for the time spent in
engineering a fix on your own.


-Kris








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