swapper: page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x20
From: Joonas Kortesalmi
Date: Thu Jan 01 2004 - 04:38:10 EST
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After running 2.6.0 on a server for a few days, I met an interesting and
annoying problem. I was playing with NFS over gigabit ethernet (e1000) and
it was a bit slow. I tried to find out why by running top and I saw syslog-ng
eating almost 10% of the 1,3GHz Duron. Looked at the log and there was a huge
flood of these messages:
swapper: page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x20
irssi: page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x20
swapper: page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x20
vim: page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x20
swapper: page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x20
most of the messages starting with swapper.
After a quick google search it looks like this kind of a problem existed in
a bit older 2.5/2.6 serie kernels. It looks like it's still with us.
Linux hamsu.org 2.6.0 #1 Mon Dec 29 21:07:28 EET 2003 i686 AMD Duron(tm) processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
Shortly about the hardware of the machine in case it would matter:
AMD Duron 1,3GHz CPU, 768MB of RAM, Intel PRO/1000MT Desktop and Realtek 8139C
NICs.
Pre-empt was disabled in the kernel config and the kernel didn't have any
extra patches. A pure vanilla kernel.
I'm not a subscriber so please CC me a copy of messages related to the subject.
I'm not sure if I can help much looking at the insides of the kernel, but I will
try my best answering any questions about this.
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