Re: Page swap allocation failure 2.6.25

From: Francois Romieu
Date: Sun Jul 13 2008 - 07:09:25 EST


Alex Samad <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxx> :
[...]
> For a while now I have been receiving page swap allocation failures
>
>
> Similar to http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/10/3 and

Order 0 failure. Your is an order 2 one.

> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/19/298

Order 3 failure which was fixed with the e1000e driver.

> and I have filed a bug with debian (Bug#486300)
>
>
> It seems like any time I put the system under load, transferring large
> files across the network (1G nic, a r8186 and forcedeth and a
> broadcom). I keep getting these errors

May I assume that you are working with a MTU greater than 1500 bytes on
each interface ? If so plese add netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx to the Cc: and
remove linux-kernel@ from the Cc:.

[...]
> Jul 13 13:28:30 nas kernel: [ 648.120756] [<ffffffff881b525f>]
> :r8168:rtl8168_rx_fill+0x64/0x106

It looks more like Realtek's out-of-tree driver than like the in-kernel
one. Is it a customised kernel ?

[...]
> Help

Don't panic.

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Ueimor
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