linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.29.1: nfsd: page allocation failure

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Date:	Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:43:23 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@...idpixels.com>
To:	Michael Tokarev <mjt@....msk.ru>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.29.1: nfsd: page allocation failure - nfsd or kernel
 problem?

On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, Michael Tokarev wrote:

> Michael Tokarev wrote:
>> Justin Piszcz wrote:
> ...
>
> Justin, by the way, what's the underlying filesystem on the server?
>
> I've seen this error on 2 machines already (both running 2.6.29.x x86-64),
> and in both cases the filesystem on the server was xfs.  May this be
> related somehow to http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13375 ?
> That one is different, but also about xfs and nfs.  I'm trying to
> reproduce the problem on different filesystem...
>
> /mjt
>

Hello, I am also running XFS on 2.6.29.x x86-64.

For me, the error happened when I was running an XFSDUMP from a client 
(and dumping) the stream over NFS to the XFS server/filesystem.  This is 
typically when the error occurs or during heavy I/O.

Justin.
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