From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Serban Simu <serban@asperasoft.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: page allocation failure & sk98lin
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 17:50:56 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <412AF360.60005@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <412AE018.8000207@asperasoft.com>
Serban Simu wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I found a few references to similar problems in the list but no
> indications of whether this has been fixed or can be avoided.
>
> I'm using 2.6.8.1 and the patch: sk98lin_v7.04_2.6.8_patch. This
> happens when receiving data fast on the GigE card (about 600Mbps) and
> writing on disk. It seems to happen after writing 1 GB to disk (1024
> MB) but I can't correlate that very reliably.
>
> I would appreciate any information pointing me to a fix or explanation.
>
> Thank you!
>
> -Serban
>
> swapper: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20
The messages should be basically harmless and can't be completely avoided.
That said, -mm kernels have patches to fix up numerous problems with the
page
allocator which have a good chance of fixing your problems.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-24 7:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-24 6:28 page allocation failure & sk98lin Serban Simu
2004-08-24 7:50 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2004-08-24 20:28 ` Serban Simu
2004-08-25 2:20 ` Nick Piggin
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