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

Udo van den Heuvel
2008-07-26T04:43:21Z

KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> no bug.
> this stack trace speak to
>
> 1. memory pressure increased
> 2. kswapd ran
> 3. network packet received
> 4. interrupt for network happend
> 5. but can't allocate memory for network buffer(skb).
> 6. Then, packet dropped
> 7. Then, warning happend.
>
> your network peer may resend the same packet after few times.
> no problem.

Thanks.
This was on a 4GB AMD X86_64 machine running Fedora 9.
The memory was not loaded that much. (~2 GB)
Or was the (largish) file being cached, filling up RAM?

Udo