From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: pomac@vapor.com
Cc: Linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Cache not being reclaimed?
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 05:45:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070905054501.9c59dc56.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1188955687.8365.5.camel@localhost>
> On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 03:28:07 +0200 Ian Kumlien <pomac@vapor.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have just had a quite unexpected 'low memory situation'...
>
> This is a AMD64 machine with 2 gig memory, running 64 bit userland.
>
> Kernel: 2.6.23-rc3-git10, updating to -rc5-* as soon as i can.
> I'm using SLUB:s
>
>
> To me, this looks odd... I thought that any cached memory would be
> reclamed but it was always full.
>
> Ideas?
>
> One example from dmesg:
> swapper: page allocation failure. order:1, mode:0x4020
>
> Call Trace:
> <IRQ> [<ffffffff8026c7ef>] __alloc_pages+0x30f/0x330
> [<ffffffff8028a0a1>] __slab_alloc+0x141/0x590
> [<ffffffff805a5937>] __netdev_alloc_skb+0x17/0x40
> [<ffffffff805a5937>] __netdev_alloc_skb+0x17/0x40
> [<ffffffff8028b470>] __kmalloc_track_caller+0xa0/0xc0
> [<ffffffff805a4b3f>] __alloc_skb+0x6f/0x150
> [<ffffffff805a5937>] __netdev_alloc_skb+0x17/0x40
> [<ffffffff88010945>] :sky2:sky2_rx_alloc+0x25/0xf0
> [<ffffffff88013b0c>] :sky2:sky2_poll+0x6dc/0xcf0
> [<ffffffff805e5f60>] tcp_delack_timer+0x0/0x210
> [<ffffffff805ac38a>] net_rx_action+0x8a/0x140
> [<ffffffff80242ac9>] __do_softirq+0x69/0xe0
> [<ffffffff8020cd9c>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30
> [<ffffffff8020eb75>] do_softirq+0x35/0x90
> [<ffffffff8020ede0>] do_IRQ+0x80/0x100
> [<ffffffff8020ad00>] default_idle+0x0/0x40
> [<ffffffff8020c121>] ret_from_intr+0x0/0xa
> <EOI> [<ffffffff8020ad29>] default_idle+0x29/0x40
> [<ffffffff8020ade1>] cpu_idle+0xa1/0xf0
>
An order-1 GFP_ATOMIC allocation can fail, and networking should recover
from it.
If this is happening a lot then someting might have been broken. Do you
have reason to believe that the frequency of this happening has inreased?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-05 12:46 UTC|newest]
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2007-09-05 1:28 Cache not being reclaimed? Ian Kumlien
2007-09-05 12:45 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-09-05 13:01 ` Ian Kumlien
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