[CentOS] page allocation failure

Sun Oct 27 23:02:56 UTC 2013
James A. Peltier <jpeltier at sfu.ca>

----- Original Message -----
| CentOS 6.4
| 
| /var/log/messages-20131013:Oct  9 03:16:36 vixen kernel: EMT: page
| allocation failure. order:4, mode:0xd0
| /var/log/messages-20131020:Oct 14 13:15:11 vixen kernel: httpd: page
| allocation failure. order:2, mode:0x20
| /var/log/messages-20131020:Oct 14 13:15:11 vixen kernel: httpd: page
| allocation failure. order:2, mode:0x20
| /var/log/messages-20131027:Oct 20 16:00:47 vixen kernel: sshd: page
| allocation failure. order:2, mode:0x20
| /var/log/messages-20131027:Oct 20 16:14:28 vixen kernel: sshd: page
| allocation failure. order:2, mode:0x20
| /var/log/messages-20131027:Oct 20 16:14:28 vixen kernel: swapper:
| page
| allocation failure. order:1, mode:0x20
| /var/log/messages-20131027:Oct 20 16:14:28 vixen kernel: sshd: page
| allocation failure. order:2, mode:0x20
| /var/log/messages-20131027:Oct 23 10:22:41 vixen kernel: httpd: page
| allocation failure. order:1, mode:0x20
| 
| I know It's been discussed about a year ago but I can't view the bug
| reports mentioned in the thread. It seems to require an active RHEL
| subscription. What was that workaround again?
| 
| Thanks

How much memory is in the system?  Is it a NUMA machine?  Can you tell me what memory looks like during these errors?  It looks like a memory problem, but I'll need more details.

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