Re: 2.6.10-rc1-mm4 -1 EAGAIN after allocation failure was: Re: Kernel 2.6.9 Multiple Page Allocation Failures

Stefan Schmidt [off-list ref] wrote:

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As for the application collapse: dunno.  Maybe networking broke.  It would

 > be interesting to test Linus's current tree, at
 > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/patch-2.6.10-rc1-bk19.gz
 Will try that tomorrow. Would you suggest printing out show_free_areas();
 there too? I don't know what kind of an overhead that will generate on
 subsequent stack traces.

I don't think it'd help much - we know what's happening.

It would be interesting to keep increasing min_free_kbytes, see if you can
characterise the system's response to this setting.