From: Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh@xs4all.nl>
To: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: What to do with `kswapd0: page allocation failure. ` ?
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 06:41:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <488AAAEB.3070005@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <488A214C.3060605@shaw.ca>
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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2008-07-25 18:54 ` What to do with `kswapd0: page allocation failure. ` ? Robert Hancock
2008-07-26 4:41 ` Udo van den Heuvel [this message]
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2008-07-26 20:05 ` Robert Hancock
2008-07-27 5:44 ` Udo van den Heuvel
2008-07-25 13:26 Udo van den Heuvel
2008-07-25 21:13 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-07-26 4:43 ` Udo van den Heuvel
2008-07-26 9:47 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-07-26 10:33 ` Udo van den Heuvel
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