Bug#533180: linux-image-amd64: page allocation failure

Hello,

i'm facing the same problem with last debian kernel. This machine have a huge network traffic.

lsmod
e1000e 107176 0

uname -a
Linux storage36 2.6.26-2-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Nov 25 04:30:55 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[661895.451583] swapper: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20
[661895.451583] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.26-2-amd64 #1
[661895.451583]
[661895.451583] Call Trace:
[661895.451583] <IRQ> [<ffffffff80276c15>] __alloc_pages_internal+0x3a6/0x3bf
[661895.451583] [<ffffffff802957ec>] kmem_getpages+0x96/0x15f
[661895.451583] [<ffffffff80295e7c>] fallback_alloc+0x16b/0x1e1
[661895.451583] [<ffffffff80295a59>] kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x105/0x138
[661895.451583] [<ffffffff803b6799>] __alloc_skb+0x64/0x12d
[661895.451583] [<ffffffff803b7707>] __netdev_alloc_skb+0x29/0x43
[661895.451583] [<ffffffffa00764ee>] :e1000e:e1000_alloc_rx_buffers+0x83/0x1db
[661895.451583] [<ffffffffa007634f>] :e1000e:e1000_clean_rx_irq+0x29f/0x2da
[661895.451583] [<ffffffff80212507>] read_tsc+0x9/0x20
[661895.451583] [<ffffffffa0074f74>] :e1000e:e1000_clean+0x88/0x270
[661895.451583] [<ffffffff8024ac3a>] getnstimeofday+0x39/0x98
[661895.451583] [<ffffffff803bd297>] net_rx_action+0xab/0x1da
[661895.451583] [<ffffffff802393a1>] __do_softirq+0x5c/0xd1
[661895.451583] [<ffffffff8020d2dc>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x28
[661895.451583] [<ffffffff8020f3e8>] do_softirq+0x3c/0x81
[661895.451583] [<ffffffff802392ff>] irq_exit+0x3f/0x85
[661895.451583] [<ffffffff8020f648>] do_IRQ+0xb9/0xd9
[661895.451583] [<ffffffff80212b57>] mwait_idle+0x0/0x4d
[661895.451583] [<ffffffff8020c47d>] ret_from_intr+0x0/0x19
[661895.451583] <EOI> [<ffffffff8021a857>] lapic_next_event+0x0/0x13
[661895.451583] [<ffffffff80212b98>] mwait_idle+0x41/0x4d
[661895.451583] [<ffffffff8020ad04>] cpu_idle+0x8e/0xb8
[661895.451583]
[661895.451583] Mem-info:
[661895.451583] Node 0 DMA per-cpu:
[661895.451583] CPU 0: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0
[661895.451583] CPU 1: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0
[661895.451583] CPU 2: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0
[661895.451583] CPU 3: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0
[661895.451583] Node 0 DMA32 per-cpu:
[661895.451583] CPU 0: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 185
[661895.451583] CPU 1: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 158
[661895.451583] CPU 2: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 169
[661895.451583] CPU 3: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 160
[661895.451583] Node 0 Normal per-cpu:
[661895.451583] CPU 0: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 140
[661895.451583] CPU 1: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 165
[661895.451583] CPU 2: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 62
[661895.451583] CPU 3: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 154
[661895.451583] Active:151752 inactive:1807265 dirty:192055 writeback:2506 unstable:0
[661895.451583] free:9023 slab:72368 mapped:2325 pagetables:1045 bounce:0
[661895.451583] Node 0 DMA free:11680kB min:12kB low:12kB high:16kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:10748kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? yes
[661895.451583] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 3254 8052 8052
[661895.451583] Node 0 DMA32 free:21472kB min:4636kB low:5792kB high:6952kB active:180724kB inactive:2834512kB present:3332768kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
[661895.451583] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 4797 4797
[661895.451583] Node 0 Normal free:2940kB min:6836kB low:8544kB high:10252kB active:426284kB inactive:4394548kB present:4912640kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
[661895.451583] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0
[661895.451583] Node 0 DMA: 6*4kB 3*8kB 3*16kB 6*32kB 4*64kB 1*128kB 1*256kB 1*512kB 2*1024kB 0*2048kB 2*4096kB = 11680kB
[661895.451583] Node 0 DMA32: 3853*4kB 1*8kB 0*16kB 2*32kB 0*64kB 1*128kB 1*256kB 1*512kB 1*1024kB 0*2048kB 1*4096kB = 21500kB
[661895.451583] Node 0 Normal: 187*4kB 1*8kB 0*16kB 0*32kB 1*64kB 1*128kB 2*256kB 1*512kB 1*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 2996kB
[661895.451583] 1817424 total pagecache pages
[661895.451583] Swap cache: add 183, delete 183, find 0/0
[661895.451583] Free swap = 3905508kB
[661895.451583] Total swap = 3906240kB
[661895.504645] 2097152 pages of RAM
[661895.504645] 47347 reserved pages
[661895.504645] 1791344 pages shared
[661895.504645] 0 pages swap cached

Any idea how can i fix this?

Best Regards,

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Eduardo Silvestre
nfsi telecom, lda.

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