From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266806AbUHXHvC (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Aug 2004 03:51:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267165AbUHXHvC (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Aug 2004 03:51:02 -0400 Received: from smtp209.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([216.136.130.117]:11376 "HELO smtp209.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S266806AbUHXHu6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Aug 2004 03:50:58 -0400 Message-ID: <412AF360.60005@yahoo.com.au> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 17:50:56 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.1) Gecko/20040726 Debian/1.7.1-4 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Serban Simu CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: page allocation failure & sk98lin References: <412AE018.8000207@asperasoft.com> In-Reply-To: <412AE018.8000207@asperasoft.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.