On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Should I be using SLUB instead? Any downsides to SLUB on an old and > slow (500 MHz) single core dual CPU box with <512MB RAM? SLUB has a smaller memory footprint so you may come out ahead for such a small system in particular. > Also, what is the impact of these oopses? Despite the entries in dmesg, > the system "seems" to be running ok. Or is this simply the calm before > the impending storm? The system does not guarantee that GFP_ATOMIC allocation succeed so any caller must provide logic to fall back if no memory is allocated. So the effect may just be that certain OS operations have to be retried. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>