Re: __alloc_pages: 2-order allocation failed

[Mike Edwards <sauron-debian-sparc@psychology.rutgers.edu>]

Is it possible that every single process listed here has the same
issue?

      1 task(courierpop3d)
      1 task(dbclean)
      1 task(qmail-remote)
      1 task(qmail-to-mailma)
      1 task(sh)
      1 task(soffice.bin)
      1 task(sperl5.8.4)
      2 task(apache2)
      2 task(smbd)
      3 task(in.ftpd)
      3 task(lpd)
      3 task(top)
      4 task(imapd)
      4 task(python)
     10 task(display)
     10 task(spamd)
     12 task(perl5.8.4)
     26 task(abiword)
     28 task(sshd)
    541 task(spamc)
    849 task(swapper)

This is a list of processes that have set off this complaint, and how
many times they've been seen (I'm rather disturbed that swapper has
surpassed spamc...).

It may very well be that spamc has a bug - but why am I seeing this
error for all of these processes?


On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 11:37:43AM -0700, David S. Miller said:
> From: Mike Edwards <sauron-debian-sparc@psychology.rutgers.edu>
> Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 13:25:17 -0400
> 
> > David, do you know if anything further was done on this issue?
> 
> The spamc daemons simply don't do correct error checking on
> writes to AF_UNIX sockets.  I thought I explained this pretty
> well, so that someone could go check out the userspace bits
> and look for the bug.
> 

-- 
Mike Edwards <sauron-debian-sparc@psychology.rutgers.edu>
System Administrator
Psychology Department, Rutgers University, Newark campus