From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 17:21:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 17:21:37 -0400 Received: from mail.erisksecurity.com ([208.179.59.234]:56364 "EHLO Tidal.eRiskSecurity.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 17:21:26 -0400 Message-ID: <3B7AE7D2.3070900@erisksecurity.com> Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 17:21:22 -0400 From: David Ford User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.3+) Gecko/20010815 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: VM and N-order allocation failed. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I've a friend who has a small box doing routing/firewalling/nat for a /27 and the bandwidth is pretty tiny. The machine has 32megs of ram and 100 in swap. It dies anywhere from an hour after reboot to 12 hours later, on console are messages like so "__alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed." and "ip_conntrack: table full, dropping packet." His prior kernel was 2.4.7, nothing special, he's using 3com 3cSOHO100-TX and Cpq Neteligent 10/100. I just upped him to 2.4.8 as a starter and we'll see how it's going. I don't have direct access to the box so I can't give complete information. Comments and suggestions welcomed, David