Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754537AbYGZJrW (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jul 2008 05:47:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751652AbYGZJrP (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jul 2008 05:47:15 -0400 Received: from fgwmail5.fujitsu.co.jp ([192.51.44.35]:53939 "EHLO fgwmail5.fujitsu.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751447AbYGZJrO (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jul 2008 05:47:14 -0400 Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:47:07 +0900 From: KOSAKI Motohiro To: Udo van den Heuvel Subject: Re: What to do with `kswapd0: page allocation failure. ` ? Cc: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, LKML In-Reply-To: <488AAB54.8070801@xs4all.nl> References: <20080726060755.0D2A.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com> <488AAB54.8070801@xs4all.nl> Message-Id: <20080726184636.3175.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.42 [ja] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 801 Lines: 28 > > 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.. -- 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/