Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753359AbYGZEnV (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:43:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751341AbYGZEnN (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:43:13 -0400 Received: from smtp-vbr10.xs4all.nl ([194.109.24.30]:2144 "EHLO smtp-vbr10.xs4all.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751317AbYGZEnM (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:43:12 -0400 Message-ID: <488AAB54.8070801@xs4all.nl> Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 06:43:00 +0200 From: Udo van den Heuvel User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: KOSAKI Motohiro CC: LKML Subject: Re: What to do with `kswapd0: page allocation failure. ` ? References: <4889D471.2050301@xs4all.nl> <20080726060755.0D2A.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com> In-Reply-To: <20080726060755.0D2A.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com> 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: 782 Lines: 27 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 -- 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/