Re: E1000 - page allocation failure - saga continues :(

[Yann Dupont <Yann.Dupont@univ-nantes.fr>]

Lukas Hejtmanek a écrit :

>Hello,
>
>today I tried 2.6.11.7 kernel with hoping that allocation failures disappear.
>Unfortunately they did not.
>
>Default min_free_kb is 3200kB.
>
>Here is stack trace:
>
>swapper: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20
> [<c0139783>] __alloc_pages+0x2b3/0x420
> [<c013c4f1>] kmem_getpages+0x31/0xa0
> [<c013d22e>] cache_grow+0xae/0x160
> [<c0342b50>] ip_rcv_finish+0x0/0x280
> [<c013d45b>] cache_alloc_refill+0x17b/0x230
> [<c013d7d8>] __kmalloc+0x88/0xa0
> [<c0327ce7>] alloc_skb+0x47/0xf0
> [<c02bff97>] e1000_alloc_rx_buffers+0x57/0x100
> [<c02bfc3f>] e1000_clean_rx_irq+0x1bf/0x4c0
>  
>
I have those problems too. The (temporary ?) fix is to raise the
min_free_kb to an higher value.
echo 65535 > /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes

Maybe such an high value is totally silly, but at least I don't have
those messages.

Sincerely yours,

-- 
Yann Dupont, Cri de l'université de Nantes
Tel: 02.51.12.53.91 - Fax: 02.51.12.58.60 - Yann.Dupont@univ-nantes.fr

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