After a while, a loaded http proxy gets many errors like below. It is reproducible and happens again after reboot (in some time). It did not happen with 2.6.17. I have also tested 2.6.18.3, the leak is there too.
swapper: page allocation failure. order:1, mode:0x20 [<c012bc40>] __alloc_pages+0x253/0x267 [<c013b12e>] cache_alloc_refill+0x243/0x3e7 [<c013b317>] __kmalloc+0x45/0x51 [<c01c11b8>] __alloc_skb+0x49/0xf4 [<c01e2feb>] tcp_collapse+0x10f/0x2ca [<c01e32f5>] tcp_prune_queue+0x14f/0x20b [<c01e3550>] tcp_data_queue+0x19f/0x9e9 [<c01ff7ea>] ipt_do_table+0x296/0x2c0 [<c01e52ef>] tcp_rcv_established+0x533/0x5c4 [<c01e9e2c>] tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x22/0x267 [<c01ff88a>] ipt_hook+0x17/0x1d [<c01d04ad>] nf_iterate+0x30/0x61 [<c01ebe08>] tcp_v4_rcv+0x751/0x7a5 [<c01dd215>] tcp_prequeue_process+0x30/0x56 [<c01d59a8>] ip_local_deliver+0x12f/0x1ab [<c01d5850>] ip_rcv+0x33f/0x368 [<c01c4991>] netif_receive_skb+0x135/0x176 [<c01c5da5>] process_backlog+0x6d/0xd2 [<c01c5e5c>] net_rx_action+0x52/0xcb [<c0110463>] __do_softirq+0x35/0x75 [<c01104c5>] do_softirq+0x22/0x26 [<c0103b7f>] do_IRQ+0x45/0x4d [<c010266a>] common_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 [<c0101506>] mwait_idle+0x20/0x33 [<c01014d1>] cpu_idle+0x39/0x4e [<c02765f9>] start_kernel+0x275/0x277 Mem-info: DMA per-cpu: cpu 0 hot: high 0, batch 1 used:0 cpu 0 cold: high 0, batch 1 used:0 DMA32 per-cpu: empty Normal per-cpu: cpu 0 hot: high 186, batch 31 used:21 cpu 0 cold: high 62, batch 15 used:59 HighMem per-cpu: empty Free pages: 27156kB (0kB HighMem) Active:165330 inactive:5001 dirty:18 writeback:283 unstable:0 free:6789 slab:48830 mapped:415 pagetables:278 DMA free:3548kB min:68kB low:84kB high:100kB active:2404kB inactive:0kB present:16384kB pages_scanned:357 all_unreclaimable? no lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 880 880 DMA32 free:0kB min:0kB low:0kB high:0kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 880 880 Normal free:23608kB min:3756kB low:4692kB high:5632kB active:658916kB inactive:20004kB present:901120kB pages_scanned:772 all_unreclaimable? no lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0 HighMem free:0kB min:128kB low:128kB high:128kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0 DMA: 281*4kB 71*8kB 26*16kB 3*32kB 1*64kB 0*128kB 1*256kB 0*512kB 1*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 3548kB DMA32: empty Normal: 5726*4kB 0*8kB 0*16kB 0*32kB 1*64kB 1*128kB 0*256kB 1*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 23608kB HighMem: empty Swap cache: add 2143636, delete 2050596, find 187393/808790, race 0+0 Free swap = 495296kB Total swap = 1003972kB Free swap: 495296kB 229376 pages of RAM 0 pages of HIGHMEM 2500 reserved pages 1450 pages shared 93040 pages swap cached 18 pages dirty 283 pages writeback 415 pages mapped 48830 pages slab 278 pages pagetables - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/