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From: Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh@xs4all.nl>
To: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: What to do with `kswapd0: page allocation failure. ` ?
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 06:43:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <488AAB54.8070801@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080726060755.0D2A.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com>

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


  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-26  4:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-25 13:26 Udo van den Heuvel
2008-07-25 21:13 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-07-26  4:43   ` Udo van den Heuvel [this message]
2008-07-26  9:47     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-07-26 10:33       ` Udo van den Heuvel
     [not found] <fa.ajQey35b1AZPlS1/p6joOoTWhU4@ifi.uio.no>
2008-07-25 18:54 ` Robert Hancock
2008-07-26  4:41   ` Udo van den Heuvel
     [not found] <fa.D09/4X9DRMh7IIolk0FWx9V7A2k@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found] ` <fa.t1205kREOn3zo/ARD/J1XRupvUU@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found]   ` <fa.JR0D/ya5niKzRp9PulS5LvnbhqQ@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found]     ` <fa.ifMjE6bNVSEOY+bMgRSeQMCIhlI@ifi.uio.no>
2008-07-26 20:05       ` Robert Hancock
2008-07-27  5:44         ` Udo van den Heuvel

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