Re: swapper: page allocation failure. order:1, mode:0x20

2005-02-28 Thread Robert Hancock
Nigel Cunningham wrote: Hi. On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 12:10, Robert Hancock wrote: Bernd Schubert wrote: Essentially the tg3 Ethernet driver is trying to allocate memory to store a received packet, and is unable to do so. Since this is done inside interrupt context, this allocation has to be serviced

Re: swapper: page allocation failure. order:1, mode:0x20

2005-02-28 Thread Nick Piggin
Robert Hancock wrote: Bernd Schubert wrote: Oh no, not this page allocation problems again. In summer I already posted problems with page allocation errors with 2.6.7, but to me it seemed that nobody cared. That time we got those problems every morning during the cron jobs and our main file serv

Re: swapper: page allocation failure. order:1, mode:0x20

2005-02-28 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 12:10, Robert Hancock wrote: > Bernd Schubert wrote: > Essentially the tg3 Ethernet driver is trying to allocate memory to > store a received packet, and is unable to do so. Since this is done > inside interrupt context, this allocation has to be serviced from > physic

Re: swapper: page allocation failure. order:1, mode:0x20

2005-02-28 Thread Robert Hancock
Bernd Schubert wrote: Oh no, not this page allocation problems again. In summer I already posted problems with page allocation errors with 2.6.7, but to me it seemed that nobody cared. That time we got those problems every morning during the cron jobs and our main file server always completely c

Re: swapper: page allocation failure. order:1, mode:0x20

2005-02-28 Thread Bernd Schubert
Hello Benjamin, On Monday 28 February 2005 16:23, Benjamin L. Shi wrote: > We've seen these, by adding the following tueables resolved the problem. > More specifically, the lower zone protection made the difference. > > vm.vfs_cache_pressure=1000 > vm.lower_zone_protection=100 > vm.max_map_count =

Re: swapper: page allocation failure. order:1, mode:0x20

2005-02-28 Thread Benjamin L. Shi
We've seen these, by adding the following tueables resolved the problem. More specifically, the lower zone protection made the difference. vm.vfs_cache_pressure=1000 vm.lower_zone_protection=100 vm.max_map_count = 32668 vm.min_free_kbytes = 1 Bernd Schubert wrote: Oh no, not this page allocat

Re: swapper: page allocation failure. order:1, mode:0x20

2005-02-28 Thread Marcel Smeets
Hello had the same sort of messages, posted it two days ago. I am using SuSE 9.2 Pro with kernel uname -a: Linux 2.6.8-24.11-smp #1 SMP Fri Jan 14 13:01:26 UTC 2005 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz 2 GB RAM 1 GB SWAP and these strange kernel messages keep appearing: