Re: What to do with `kswapd0: page allocation failure. ` ?

[Udo van den Heuvel]

Robert Hancock wrote:
> It's not really harmful, it just means the kernel was momentarily unable
> to allocate memory to handle an incoming network packet. That packet
> will get dropped, but the system should recover.
> 
> Not sure why it's allocating an order 2 chunk though, that is 16KB. Are
> you using jumbo frames on the network?

Yes. 9000 bytes for GBit LAN.

Udo
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