Bug#704988: linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64: nfsd allocation errors in dmesg

[E V <eli_venter@yahoo.com>]

Yes, doubling from 90MB to 180MB got rid of the nfsd failure. Then doing some multi gig cat's over 10G Ethernet gave allocation failures for swapper. So far doubling again to 360MB has fixed that as well. Seems like there should be a better though. Thanks.

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From: Steven Chamberlain <steven@pyro.eu.org>
To: Eli Venter <eli_venter@yahoo.com>; 704988@bugs.debian.org
Sent: Monday, April 8, 2013 12:17 PM
Subject: Re: Bug#704988: linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64: nfsd allocation errors in dmesg

Hi,

On 08/04/13 14:48, Eli Venter wrote:
> Apr  4 17:44:28 gdx-ilmn kernel: [ 2694.622587] nfsd: page allocation failure: order:2, mode:0x20
> Apr  4 17:44:28 gdx-ilmn kernel: [ 2694.622591] Pid: 3539, comm: nfsd Tainted: G        W    3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 Debian 3.2.41-2

Increasing the value of sysctl vm.min_free_kbytes may help with this.
Maybe try doubling it?

Regards,
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Steven Chamberlain
steven@pyro.eu.org