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 2064380
Not 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). Failing an order 0 allocation is weird indeed, but this is a GFP_ATOMIC allocation so it's a bit less weird. Paolo
