Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Jun 2004 17:03:43 +1000 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.4 and 2.6.7 page allocation failure / e1000 related ? |
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Christopher S. Aker wrote: > Hello, > > I've had this appear in dmesg a few times on a number of different systems, all > identical hardware: SuperMicro 6013P-i dual Xeon, with 4GB of RAM, built-in e1000 > NICs connected via 100Mbit switch. > > It doesn't appear to cause any ill effects. I haven't provided all the variations > of the messages, but the consistent thing between them are the e1000_* calls. > This isn't an OOM situation, the machines are only a handful of MB into swap (if > that). >
It shouldn't cause any problems, although an order 0 failure shouldn't be happening often.
It is possible we want to increase /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes a bit, or increase the amount of extra memory a __GFP_HIGH allocation can get access to.
You could try the increasing former and see if that helps. - 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/
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