On 15.05.2015 10:10, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
On 15/05/2015 09:37, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote:Yes, yum takes memory. But there is ~2.2 GB virt memory available. That should be enough. Therefore I think it is a kernel problem. As in previous crashes on the mailing list there is a lot of swap available (2GB) which isn't touched in ANY way. Under normal conditions without yum: free total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 243036 132540 12716 15520 97780 74964 Swap: 2064380 0 2064380Not all memory is the same. Some memory cannot be swapped, and some memory can be swapped to disk without a swap file (e.g. executables).
Yes, I know the different memory types (pageable, non pageable, etc.).
Failing an order 0 allocation is weird indeed, but this is a GFP_ATOMIC allocation so it's a bit less weird.
Nevertheless the kernel should never go out of non pageable memory if a USER process requires memory (which is of course pageable).
Ciao, Gerhard
