Bug#481875: linux-image-2.6.24-1-amd64 page allocation failure when under load
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 05:36:49PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
> I seem to be getting a lot of swapper page allocation faults especially
> when I am loading the network, 1G with 9k mtu. I am using forcedeth with
> max_int_work set to 15
You need to reduce the taint flags to 0 until we intend to really look
at it. Aka no proprietary module and no forced module load. Also please
check with 2.6.25 from unstable.
> I have attached a sample from the syslog, not sure what else is need. I
> started seeing this from 2.6.23 and up. Although it has become more
> previlant now
It does not show any allocation failures.
> ata1: timeout waiting for ADMA IDLE, stat=0x440
> ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
> ata1.00: CPB resp_flags 0x11: , CMD error
> ata1.00: cmd 61/08:00:82:37:1e/00:00:00:00:00/40 tag 0 ncq 4096 out
> res 41/04:08:82:37:1e/24:00:00:00:00/40 Emask 0x401 (device error) <F>
> ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
> ata1.00: error: { ABRT }
> ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
> ata1: EH complete
Broken hardware?
Bastian
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