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Bug#576838: KVM: networking stack tanks after page allocation failure



On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 11:52 -0400, Micah Anderson wrote:
> Package: linux-image-2.6.32-2-amd64
> Version: 2.6.32-8~bpo50+1
> Severity: important
> 
> I'm running a tor exit node on a kvm instance, it runs for a little
> while (between an hour and 3 days), doing 30-40mbit/sec and then
> suddenly 'swapper: page allocation failure' happens, and the entire
> networking stack of the kvm instance is dead. It stops responding on
> the net completely. No ping in or out, no traffic can be observed
> using tcpdump, the counters on the interface no longer change
> (although the interface stays up).
[...]

It sounds like there might be a memory leak.  Please send the contents
of /proc/meminfo and /proc/slabinfo from a 'normal' state and the broken
state.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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