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, --- Eduardo Silvestre nfsi telecom, lda. [Email] eduardo.silves...@nfsi.pt [Phone] +351 21 114 2321 [Phone] +351 21 114 2302 [Mobile] +351 91 925 5457 [Fax] +351 21 114 2301 [Web] http://www.nfsi.pt/
