Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1

Mariusz Kozlowski
2007-03-15T06:07:33Z

Hello,

> > Today after +- 24h of uptime I found some more page allocation
> > failures ('eth1: Can't allocate skb for Rx'). You'll find more here:
> >
> > http://tuxland.pl/misc/2.6.21-rc3-mm1-page-allocation-failure.txt
> >
> > System wasn't doing anything unusual, as usual ;-) X, some p2p
> > software, firefox+flash playing music.
> >
>
> Do other kernels do this, or is 2.6.21-rc3-mm1 worse?

I've never seen page allocation failures before 2.6.21-rc3-mm1 (first
khubd with the mouse thing now this).

> It is of course a non-fatal problem and will inevitably happen sometimes,
> but we would like the VM to be able to minimise the occurrence of this
> problem.

True. System runs as nothing happened. It just pops out from time to time.

> I think we were rather hoping that Mel's anti-fragmentation work would
> improve things.

Thanks,

Mariusz Kozlowski