Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:41:43 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [2.6.25.8] "kswapd0: page allocation failure. order:3" in tcp_collapse |
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On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:30:30 +0200 Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> wrote:
> My Intel Pentium D940 system, Intel DQ965GF mainboard, 2 GB RAM, running an > x86_32 build of kernel release 2.6.25.8 with openSUSE 10.3 userland, produced > the message in the subject accompanied by a stack backtrace, seven times in a > row within a few milliseconds, during the nightly backup of a Windows system > through Bacula over the LAN. The backup did not report an error, though, and > everything else seems to be running normally, too. > > The kernel is built with CONFIG_SLUB=y. > > ... > > Should I worry? File a bug? Post more details?
e1000 driver has a lovely habit of allocating 32k of GFP_ATOMIC memory for packets which are a quarter that size. AFAIK it is unfixable. It is a well-known and oft-reported problem. The system should recover OK.
> Just ignore it?
Learn to enjoy it ;)
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