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From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: Doug Dumitru <doug@easyco.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Hard Hang with __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x20/1) - Not out of memory
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 09:59:21 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040526125921.GJ6439@logos.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040525161212.6478216e.davem@redhat.com>

On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 04:12:12PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> On Tue, 25 May 2004 15:26:30 -0700
> Doug Dumitru <doug@easyco.com> wrote:
> 
> > This is the original trap dump from a __page_alloc error
> > 
> > __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x20/1)
> 
> 0x20 means GFP_ATOMIC which means it's fine to fail
> and e1000 is doing nothing wrong.  GFP_ATOMIC in interrupts
> is a fine condition.

Yeap, but the crash is not a fine condition... I suspect
what can be happening is extreme gigabit traffic resulting in 
memory shortage.

Doug said the load average is really high. Doug, you're not
using NAPI, right? Can you try it?

  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-26 17:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-25 22:26 Hard Hang with __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x20/1) - Not out of memory Doug Dumitru
2004-05-25 23:12 ` David S. Miller
2004-05-26 12:59   ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2004-05-26 18:59     ` Doug Dumitru
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-05-26  1:22 (Found?) " Roger Larsson
2004-05-26 19:58 ` Roger Larsson
2004-05-25 22:17 Doug Dumitru
2004-05-25 21:20 Feldman, Scott
2004-05-25 21:47 ` David S. Miller
2004-05-25 22:53   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-05-25 23:39     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-05-25 22:53 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-05-24  3:08 Doug Dumitru
2004-05-25 19:02 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-05-23 21:54 Doug Dumitru

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