Re: Kernel 2.6.9 Multiple Page Allocation Failures

From: Nick Piggin
Date: Thu Dec 09 2004 - 03:54:08 EST




Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:

On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 10:23:01PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:

No better. min_free_kb is set by default to 3831 but I can still reproduce this:

swapper: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20


What value do you have to raise min_free_kb to in order to be unable to
reproduce the warnings?


32MB seems to be ok but it will require further testing to be sure.



Seems pretty excessive - although maybe your increased socket buffers and
txqueuelen are contributing?

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