Hi I have been running 2.6.22 for quite a while, I recently upgraded to 2.6.24-4 I have started to see this turn up in my dmesg swapper: page allocation failure. order:2, mode:0x20 Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: PF 2.6.24-1-amd64 #1 Call Trace: <IRQ> [<ffffffff80276d3b>] __alloc_pages+0x2f0/0x309 [<ffffffff802926ba>] kmem_getpages+0x94/0x144 [<ffffffff802926ba>] kmem_getpages+0x94/0x144 [<ffffffff80292c21>] fallback_alloc+0x122/0x18e [<ffffffff80292899>] kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x92/0xbe [<ffffffff803a6e8c>] __alloc_skb+0x64/0x12d [<ffffffff8041518f>] _write_lock_bh+0x9/0x1c [<ffffffff8804c84b>] :forcedeth:nv_alloc_rx_optimized+0x57/0x198 [<ffffffff8804e8bd>] :forcedeth:nv_nic_irq_optimized+0x93/0x22a [<ffffffff8026c8b8>] handle_IRQ_event+0x25/0x53 [<ffffffff8026dda5>] handle_fasteoi_irq+0x94/0xd0 [<ffffffff8020ede4>] do_IRQ+0x6c/0xd4 [<ffffffff8020c341>] ret_from_intr+0x0/0xa [<ffffffff8024b8be>] notifier_call_chain+0x4b/0x4c [<ffffffff883e8bd6>] :nf_conntrack:nf_ct_deliver_cached_events+0x4f/0x81 [<ffffffff883fc161>] :nf_conntrack_ipv4:ipv4_confirm+0x3f/0x45 [<ffffffff803c5cb6>] nf_iterate+0x3f/0x7e [<ffffffff803cb748>] ip_local_deliver_finish+0x0/0x212 [<ffffffff803c5d52>] nf_hook_slow+0x5d/0xbe [<ffffffff803cb748>] ip_local_deliver_finish+0x0/0x212 [<ffffffff803cbd26>] ip_local_deliver+0x5f/0x7d [<ffffffff803cb725>] ip_rcv_finish+0x311/0x334 [<ffffffff803cbc82>] ip_rcv+0x243/0x288 [<ffffffff803ab841>] netif_receive_skb+0x363/0x3dc [<ffffffff803adeb6>] process_backlog+0x73/0xd6 [<ffffffff803ad926>] net_rx_action+0x9e/0x18c [<ffffffff8023a809>] __do_softirq+0x55/0xc3 [<ffffffff8021f0ea>] ack_apic_level+0x10/0xd9 [<ffffffff8020cfbc>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x28 [<ffffffff8020ebf8>] do_softirq+0x2c/0x7d [<ffffffff8023a76f>] irq_exit+0x3f/0x84 [<ffffffff8020ee2e>] do_IRQ+0xb6/0xd4 [<ffffffff8020b09d>] default_idle+0x0/0x3d [<ffffffff8020c341>] ret_from_intr+0x0/0xa <EOI> [<ffffffff8020b0c6>] default_idle+0x29/0x3d [<ffffffff8020b16d>] cpu_idle+0x93/0xbb [<ffffffff80554a6d>] start_kernel+0x2d9/0x2e5 [<ffffffff8055411d>] _sinittext+0x11d/0x124 Mem-info: Node 0 DMA per-cpu: CPU 0: Hot: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Cold: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 CPU 1: Hot: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Cold: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Node 0 DMA32 per-cpu: CPU 0: Hot: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 67 Cold: hi: 62, btch: 15 usd: 18 CPU 1: Hot: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 174 Cold: hi: 62, btch: 15 usd: 54 Active:276588 inactive:188044 dirty:42640 writeback:2670 unstable:0 free:3002 slab:33683 mapped:18456 pagetables:4988 bounce:0 Node 0 DMA free:8016kB min:32kB low:40kB high:48kB active:184kB inactive:304kB present:11508kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no lowmem_reserve[]: 0 2004 2004 2004 Node 0 DMA32 free:3992kB min:5708kB low:7132kB high:8560kB active:1106168kB inactive:751872kB present:2052260kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0 Node 0 DMA: 6*4kB 39*8kB 28*16kB 28*32kB 19*64kB 8*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 1*4096kB = 8016kB Node 0 DMA32: 744*4kB 31*8kB 0*16kB 0*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB 1*256kB 1*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 3992kB Swap cache: add 364807, delete 304110, find 758179/784680, race 0+21 Free swap = 1611076kB Total swap = 1959800kB Free swap: 1611076kB 524272 pages of RAM 8443 reserved pages 188557 pages shared 60697 pages swap cacheds not exactly sure what the problem is, i don't see any disk problems, nor have i had any memory problems before. The next dump is for ssh. my tainted kernel is truecrypt (4.3) and vmware - built with any-any kernel modules. Alex -- "I've always found the best investments are those that you salt away based on economics." - George W. Bush 01/04/2001 Austin, TX
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