I'd suggest, when this happens, run top, and see what's going on. Also, how much swap space do you have? mark ---- Original message ---- >Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:54:54 -0600 >From: Joshua Gimer <jgimer@xxxxxxxxx> >Subject: Re: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0xf0/0) >To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > >Without knowing what processes are being killed, my guess would be >that the system is running out of physical memory and malloc cannot >allocate anything new for these processes. Some of which may be system >processes that are required for the system to function (init?) > >Josh > >On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Cholla muthu <ncmuthu2002@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Yes, Getting a message that few processes getting killed. >> >> Every time different processes are getting killed. >> >> Thanks, >> Muthu. >> >> --- On Thu, 12/3/09, Joshua Gimer <jgimer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> From: Joshua Gimer <jgimer@xxxxxxxxx> >>> Subject: Re: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0xf0/0) >>> To: "General Red Hat Linux discussion list" <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx> >>> Date: Thursday, 12 March, 2009, 7:46 AM >>> After this messages in >>> /var/log/messages, is there anything about >>> processes being killed? >>> >>> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Cholla muthu <ncmuthu2002@xxxxxxxxxxx> >>> wrote: >>> > >>> > Hi, >>> > >>> > I am getting the message "__alloc_pages: 0-order >>> allocation failed (gfp=0xf0/0)" in /var/log/messages on a >>> redhat 6.2 system and becomes unresponsive. After this I >>> need to hard reboot the system. Could you please help on >>> resolving this? >>> > >>> > OS : Redhat 6.2 >>> > Kernel : Linux 2.4.34.5-1-i686-HUGEMEM >>> > Mem : 8GB >>> > Swap : 4GB >>> > >>> > Thanks, >>> > Muthu. >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! >>> Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/ >>> > >>> > -- >>> > redhat-list mailing list >>> > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe >>> > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list >>> > >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Thx >>> Joshua Gimer >>> >>> -- >>> redhat-list mailing list >>> unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe >>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list >>> >> >> >> Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/ >> >> -- >> redhat-list mailing list >> unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list >> > > > >-- >Thx >Joshua Gimer > >-- >redhat-list mailing list >unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list