Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Nov 2004 15:12:34 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: oops with dual xeon 2.8ghz 4gb ram +smp, software raid, lvm, and xfs |
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Phil Dier <phil@dier.us> wrote: > > > Can you rebuild the kernel with CONFIG_4KSTACKS=n? > > > > > Looks like 8k stacks did the trick, at least for the oops. Now I'm > seeing the stuff below. > > I got a ton more of this with jfs and xfs, but it seems much less with > reiser. Should I be worried, or is this something I can safely ignore? > It doesn't lock the system.. Could files be getting corrupted? > > > Nov 23 17:38:20 calculon swapper: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20 > Nov 23 17:38:20 calculon [<c013c854>] __alloc_pages+0x1b9/0x35e > Nov 23 17:38:20 calculon [<c013ca1e>] __get_free_pages+0x25/0x3f > Nov 23 17:38:20 calculon [<c013fccb>] kmem_getpages+0x21/0xc9 > Nov 23 17:38:20 calculon [<c0140813>] alloc_slabmgmt+0x55/0x5f > Nov 23 17:38:20 calculon [<c0140992>] cache_grow+0xab/0x14d > Nov 23 17:38:20 calculon [<c0140ba8>] cache_alloc_refill+0x174/0x219 > Nov 23 17:38:20 calculon [<c0140ffe>] __kmalloc+0x85/0x8c > Nov 23 17:38:20 calculon [<c03f4f89>] alloc_skb+0x47/0xe0 > Nov 23 17:38:20 calculon [<c032ebe5>] e1000_alloc_rx_buffers+0x44/0xe3
You didn't mention the kernel version. 2.6.9 had problems in this area, so 2.6.10-rc2 should be better. And there are post-2.6.10-rc2 fixes which will provide more headroom.
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