On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 10:14:54AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> 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.
okay will do, currently this is vmware and true crypt and nvidia
>
> > 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?
This is part of the current dmes, the syslog attached has the errors I
was talking about
May 18 02:01:22 hufpuf kernel: swapper: page allocation failure.
order:2, mode:0x20
May 18 02:01:22 hufpuf kernel: Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: PF
2.6.24-1-amd64 #1
May 18 02:01:22 hufpuf kernel:
May 18 02:01:22 hufpuf kernel: Call Trace:
May 18 02:01:22 hufpuf kernel: <IRQ> [<ffffffff80276fa3>]
__alloc_pages+0x2f0/0x309
You made be right about the hardware fault as well. My swap is on a
raid device which include the drive which is giving me problems.
>
> Bastian
>
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