Re: swapper: page allocation failure (2.6.10-rc2)

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 06:47:52PM +0100, Stephan van Hienen wrote:
> Today got this error :
> (system didn't crash it's still running) :
> swapper: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20
>  [<c0136b22>] __alloc_pages+0x1b9/0x356
>  [<c0136ce4>] __get_free_pages+0x25/0x3f
>  [<c013a032>] kmem_getpages+0x21/0xcd
>  [<c013ab51>] alloc_slabmgmt+0x55/0x60
>  [<c013acf3>] cache_grow+0xca/0x16f
>  [<c013ae7a>] cache_alloc_refill+0xe2/0x21b
>  [<c013b23c>] __kmalloc+0x73/0x7a
>  [<c03594ed>] alloc_skb+0x47/0xe0

This is unusual enough to report, but not a sign of a problem in
isolation. If you get a large number of these (e.g. the console is
flooded with these and the system is unresponsive) there may be
something to worry about.


-- wli
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