Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752863AbYGZElc (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:41:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751341AbYGZElY (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:41:24 -0400 Received: from smtp-vbr15.xs4all.nl ([194.109.24.35]:3387 "EHLO smtp-vbr15.xs4all.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751324AbYGZElX (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:41:23 -0400 Message-ID: <488AAAEB.3070005@xs4all.nl> Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 06:41:15 +0200 From: Udo van den Heuvel User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Hancock CC: LKML Subject: Re: What to do with `kswapd0: page allocation failure. ` ? References: <488A214C.3060605@shaw.ca> In-Reply-To: <488A214C.3060605@shaw.ca> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.2 OpenPGP: id=8300CC02 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 618 Lines: 16 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/