Re: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed

[(no name)]

> ok, this sounds like a normal oom condition but of course I assume it
> isn't. Can you show a `vmstat 1` during the oom kill + some
> /proc/meminfo? thanks for the great feedback!

As the VM sometimes killed me some long lasting root processes, like klogd, I 
think it is not the normal oom behaviour........ :-)

vmstat: 

   procs                      memory    swap          io     system         
cpu
 r  b  w   swpd   free   buff  cache  si  so    bi    bo   in    cs  us  sy id
 0  0  0      0 457824   8476  28856   0   0   225   140  156   163   4  51 45
 0  0  0      0 457440   8476  28860   0   0     0   280  143   103   1  52 47
 0  0  0      0 457440   8476  28860   0   0     0     0  101    70   1  60 39
 0  0  0      0 457440   8476  28860   0   0     0     0  109    86   1  56 43
 0  0  0      0 457436   8476  28864   0   0     0     0  102    73   1  59 40
 0  0  1      0 457436   8476  28864   0   0     0     0  101    70   1  58 41
 0  0  0      0 457436   8476  28864   0   0     0   236  130    88   0  59 41
 0  0  0      0 457436   8476  28864   0   0     0     0  101    69   1  60 39
 0  0  0      0 457436   8476  28864   0   0     0     0  101    71   1  60 39
 0  0  0      0 457436   8476  28864   0   0     0     0  101    71   0  60 40
 1  0  0      0 168236   8476  28928   0   0    64     0  117    79  11  72 17
 1  2  0      0 496532    236   1660   0   0  2948   252  415   303   5  75 20
 0  0  0      0 495568    408   2364   0   0   708     0  184   206   1  26 73
 0  0  1      0 495532    412   2396   0   0    36     0  105    78   1  59 40
 0  0  0      0 495528    416   2396   0   0     0     0  106    81   1  60 39
 0  0  0      0 495376    560   2396   0   0     0   272  139   103   1  56 43
 0  0  0      0 495376    560   2396   0   0     0     0  104    78   1  60 39

meminfo: (a made a looping bash script with sleep 1 after a cat 
/proc/meminfo. But During the kill there is a 3 second gap)
Mit Sep 26 09:14:58 CEST 2001

        total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
Mem:  526491648 58064896 468426752        0  8679424 29556736
Swap:        0        0        0
MemTotal:       514152 kB
MemFree:        457448 kB
MemShared:           0 kB
Buffers:          8476 kB
Cached:          28864 kB
SwapCached:          0 kB
Active:          19084 kB
Inactive:        18256 kB
HighTotal:           0 kB
HighFree:            0 kB
LowTotal:       514152 kB
LowFree:        457448 kB
SwapTotal:           0 kB
SwapFree:            0 kB
Mit Sep 26 09:14:59 CEST 2001
        total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
Mem:  526491648 162996224 363495424        0  8679424 29622272
Swap:        0        0        0
MemTotal:       514152 kB
MemFree:        354976 kB
MemShared:           0 kB
Buffers:          8476 kB
Cached:          28928 kB
SwapCached:          0 kB
Active:          19112 kB
Inactive:        18292 kB
HighTotal:           0 kB
HighFree:            0 kB
LowTotal:       514152 kB
LowFree:        354976 kB
SwapTotal:           0 kB
SwapFree:            0 kB
Mit Sep 26 09:15:02 CEST 2001
        total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
Mem:  526491648 18993152 507498496        0   409600  2408448
Swap:        0        0        0
MemTotal:       514152 kB
MemFree:        495604 kB
MemShared:           0 kB
Buffers:           400 kB
Cached:           2352 kB
SwapCached:          0 kB
Active:           1388 kB
Inactive:         1364 kB
HighTotal:           0 kB
HighFree:            0 kB
LowTotal:       514152 kB
LowFree:        495604 kB
SwapTotal:           0 kB
SwapFree:            0 kB
Mit Sep 26 09:15:03 CEST 2001
        total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
Mem:  526491648 19054592 507437056        0   421888  2453504
Swap:        0        0        0
MemTotal:       514152 kB
MemFree:        495544 kB
MemShared:           0 kB
Buffers:           412 kB
Cached:           2396 kB
SwapCached:          0 kB
Active:           1496 kB
Inactive:         1312 kB
HighTotal:           0 kB
HighFree:            0 kB
LowTotal:       514152 kB
LowFree:        495544 kB
SwapTotal:           0 kB
SwapFree:            0 kB