Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 16:56:58 +0000
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Phil Dier <phil@dier.us>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: oops with dual xeon 2.8ghz  4gb ram +smp, software raid, lvm, and xfs
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On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 09:45:49AM -0600, Phil Dier wrote:
> Looks like 8k stacks did the trick, at least for the oops. Now I'm
> seeing the stuff below.
> 
> I got a ton more of this with jfs and xfs, but it seems much less with
> reiser. Should I be worried, or is this something I can safely ignore?
> It doesn't lock the system..  Could files be getting corrupted?
> 
> 
> Nov 23 17:38:20 calculon swapper: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20

This is pretty harmless.  It just means the NIC driver couldn't allocate as
much memory in the RX path as it wanted.  Try increasing
/proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes to make the warnings go away and get less packet
drops

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