From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753753AbYGMLFE (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:05:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752124AbYGMLEy (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:04:54 -0400 Received: from electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com ([213.41.134.224]:57207 "EHLO electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751565AbYGMLEy (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:04:54 -0400 Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 13:02:22 +0200 From: Francois Romieu To: Alex Samad Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Edward Hsu Subject: Re: Page swap allocation failure 2.6.25 Message-ID: <20080713110222.GA16817@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> References: <20080713093047.GB661@samad.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080713093047.GB661@samad.com.au> X-Organisation: Land of Sunshine Inc. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alex Samad : [...] > For a while now I have been receiving page swap allocation failures > > > Similar to http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/10/3 and Order 0 failure. Your is an order 2 one. > http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/19/298 Order 3 failure which was fixed with the e1000e driver. > and I have filed a bug with debian (Bug#486300) > > > It seems like any time I put the system under load, transferring large > files across the network (1G nic, a r8186 and forcedeth and a > broadcom). I keep getting these errors May I assume that you are working with a MTU greater than 1500 bytes on each interface ? If so plese add netdev@vger.kernel.org to the Cc: and remove linux-kernel@ from the Cc:. [...] > Jul 13 13:28:30 nas kernel: [ 648.120756] [] > :r8168:rtl8168_rx_fill+0x64/0x106 It looks more like Realtek's out-of-tree driver than like the in-kernel one. Is it a customised kernel ? [...] > Help Don't panic. -- Ueimor