linux-kernel - Re: What to do with `kswapd0: page allocation failure. ` ?

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Message-ID: <488AAAEB.3070005@xs4all.nl>
Date:	Sat, 26 Jul 2008 06:41:15 +0200
From:	Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh@...all.nl>
To:	Robert Hancock <hancockr@...w.ca>
CC:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: What to do with `kswapd0: page allocation failure. ` ?

Robert Hancock wrote:
> It's not really harmful, it just means the kernel was momentarily unable
> to allocate memory to handle an incoming network packet. That packet
> will get dropped, but the system should recover.
> 
> Not sure why it's allocating an order 2 chunk though, that is 16KB. Are
> you using jumbo frames on the network?

Yes. 9000 bytes for GBit LAN.

Udo
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