Re: What to do with `kswapd0: page allocation failure. ` ?

Udo van den Heuvel
2008-07-26T04:41:32Z

Robert Hancock wrote:
> It's not really harmful, it just means the kernel was momentarily unable
> to allocate memory to handle an incoming network packet. That packet
> will get dropped, but the system should recover.
>
> Not sure why it's allocating an order 2 chunk though, that is 16KB. Are
> you using jumbo frames on the network?

Yes. 9000 bytes for GBit LAN.

Udo