Re: 2.6.29.1: Pid: 2831, comm: nfsd Not tainted 2.6.29.1 #4

[Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>]

On Wed, 22 Apr 2009, Jesse Brandeburg wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Aioanei Rares <krnl.list@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Justin Piszcz wrote:
>>> This has been happening with 2.6.28.(x) and now 2.6.29.(x), can anyone
>>> suggest the possible root cause of this problem, re: the nfsd page
>>> allocation
>>> failures:
>
>> Yes, it happened to me too on a Debian unstable machine with more than one
>> kernel, starting with 2.6.28 until now. I have a feeling it's a
>> Debian-specific problem rather than a kernel one.
>
> you may both want to try
> echo 16384 > /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes
>
> or some other value depending on your amount of ram.  This change will
> increase the minimum amount of memory available for network memory
> allocations, which are called from softirq context to refill the NIC's
> receive buffers.
>

Will give it a shot, the default was already pretty close to the 
suggestion, 11441, if it recurs, will increase further.

Thanks,

Justin.