On Thursday 06 May 2010 07:16:01 Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 23:58 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > > Package: linux-2.6 > > Version: 2.6.32-11 > > Severity: normal > > > > I often keep getting this allocation failure message. My gut feel is > > that it gets triggered when I do some I/O. Today, it got triggered when > > I was copying a couple of Gig data from my local encrypted backup > > partition to an external USB disk. > [...] > > This is a bug/limitation in the iwlwifi drivers. It appears to be fixed > in Linux 2.6.33, but it requires quite a large change. The next release > of Debian will be based on Linux 2.6.32 and I don't know whether we will > be able to apply that change. > Too bad. There will be many users using this wifi device. :-( And the symptom is also not a good one. When the bug triggers, it seems to almost eat down all of your memory. -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs "Necessity is the mother of invention."
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