Re: 2.6.10-rc1-mm4 -1 EAGAIN after allocation failure was: Re: Kernel 2.6.9 Multiple Page Allocation Failures

Stefan Schmidt
2004-11-10T12:06:54Z

On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 11:28:54AM +0100, Stefan Schmidt wrote:
> > Can you try the following patch, please? It is diffed against 2.6.10-rc1,
> > but I think it should apply to -mm kernels as well.
I did. No apparent change with mm4 and vm.min_free_kbytes = 8192. I will try
latest bk next.

> I unset CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP and i suppose this could have this kind of effect
> on high connection rates.
> I set it back to CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP=y and if the application does not freeze
> for some hours at this load we can blame at least this issue (-1 EAGAIN) on
> that parameter.
Nope, that didn't change anything, still getting EAGAIN, checked two times.

Stefan