Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Aug 2004 17:50:56 +1000 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: page allocation failure & sk98lin |
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Serban Simu wrote:
> Hello all, > > I found a few references to similar problems in the list but no > indications of whether this has been fixed or can be avoided. > > I'm using 2.6.8.1 and the patch: sk98lin_v7.04_2.6.8_patch. This > happens when receiving data fast on the GigE card (about 600Mbps) and > writing on disk. It seems to happen after writing 1 GB to disk (1024 > MB) but I can't correlate that very reliably. > > I would appreciate any information pointing me to a fix or explanation. > > Thank you! > > -Serban > > swapper: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20
The messages should be basically harmless and can't be completely avoided.
That said, -mm kernels have patches to fix up numerous problems with the page allocator which have a good chance of fixing your problems. - 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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