From: Jon Mason <jdmason@us.ibm.com>
To: cranium2003 <cranium2003@yahoo.com>
Cc: net dev <netdev@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: getting eth1: Memory squeeze, dropping packet message
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 11:22:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200505261122.11552.jdmason@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050526144058.11890.qmail@web33004.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
On Thursday 26 May 2005 09:40 am, cranium2003 wrote:
> Hello,
> While transmitting packets through linux Router
> host from one network to another Redhat linux 9 kernel
> 2.4.20-8 caught kernel oops following there are 2
> statements which are
> __alloc_pages: 0 order allocation failed (gfp =
> 0x20/1)
> eth1: Memory squeeze, dropping packet
> What this means?
The driver was trying to alloc a rx skb and couldn't. The incoming packet was
dropped. Assuming that the error logged is the only problem you saw, this
isn't a driver or kernel bug. It means you were out of free kernel memory.
You can see if you have any processes consuming lots of memory.
Thanks,
Jon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-26 16:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-26 14:40 getting eth1: Memory squeeze, dropping packet message cranium2003
2005-05-26 16:22 ` Jon Mason [this message]
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2005-05-26 14:39 cranium2003
2005-05-26 16:37 ` Lee Revell
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