Re: 2.4.10 VM problems burning CDs

Kristian Peters (kristian.peters@korseby.net)
Sun, 07 Oct 2001 19:44:35 +0200


sven@uncivilised.com wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've found that when I try to burn a CD in 2.4.10 using cdrdao I get the lots of
> the following error:
>
> __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) from c012cd56
> This happens every time I burn a CD larger than about 300M. Sometimes
> the OOM killer starts killing processes as well, but I haven't found a reliable
> way to reproduce this.

The vm of 2.4.10 is bad. I have the same problems with it. At the moment I'm
using the -ac1 patch instead and everything works fine for me.

>
> I get no errors using 2.4.9, or if I use cdrecord instead of cdrdao.
>
> Regards,
> Steven

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