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

KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-07-26T09:47:22Z

> > 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?

maybe..