Re: page allocation failure & sk98lin

From: Nick Piggin (nickpiggin_at_yahoo.com.au)
Date: 08/24/04

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To: Serban Simu <serban@asperasoft.com>

    Serban Simu wrote:

    > Hello all,
    >
    > I found a few references to similar problems in the list but no
    > indications of whether this has been fixed or can be avoided.
    >
    > I'm using 2.6.8.1 and the patch: sk98lin_v7.04_2.6.8_patch. This
    > happens when receiving data fast on the GigE card (about 600Mbps) and
    > writing on disk. It seems to happen after writing 1 GB to disk (1024
    > MB) but I can't correlate that very reliably.
    >
    > I would appreciate any information pointing me to a fix or explanation.
    >
    > Thank you!
    >
    > -Serban
    >
    > swapper: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20

    The messages should be basically harmless and can't be completely avoided.

    That said, -mm kernels have patches to fix up numerous problems with the
    page
    allocator which have a good chance of fixing your problems.
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