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SubjectRe: swapper: page allocation failure. order:1, mode:0x20
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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
> physical memory. Order 1 means it only wanted one page of memory, and

Minor point, I know, but it's 2 pages of memory. If it couldn't get an
order zero page, that would be even greater hernia material!

Regards,

Nigel

> since that failed it looks like the system must have been awfully short
> on available physical RAM.. it could be some kind of kernel memory leak
> or VM issue, though this condition may not be entirely unexpected in
> certain cases, like if the system has little physical RAM free at a
> certain point and then a flood of network packets arrive.
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Nigel Cunningham
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