Justin Piszcz wrote:-Kernel 2.6.9 w/TSO patch.
(most likely do to the e1000/nic/issue)
$ dmesg
gaim: page allocation failure. order:4, mode:0x21
[<c01391a7>] __alloc_pages+0x247/0x3b0
[<c0139328>] __get_free_pages+0x18/0x40
[<c035c33a>] sound_alloc_dmap+0xaa/0x1b0
[<c03648c0>] ad_mute+0x20/0x40
[<c035c70f>] open_dmap+0x1f/0x100
[<c035cb58>] DMAbuf_open+0x178/0x1d0
[<c035a4fa>] audio_open+0xba/0x280
[<c015d863>] cdev_get+0x53/0xc0
[<c035968c>] sound_open+0xac/0x110
[<c035898e>] soundcore_open+0x1ce/0x300
[<c03587c0>] soundcore_open+0x0/0x300
[<c015d524>] chrdev_open+0x104/0x250
[<c015d420>] chrdev_open+0x0/0x250
[<c0152d82>] dentry_open+0x1d2/0x270
[<c0152b9c>] filp_open+0x5c/0x70
[<c01049c8>] common_interrupt+0x18/0x20
[<c0152e75>] get_unused_fd+0x55/0xf0
[<c0152fd9>] sys_open+0x49/0x90
[<c010405b>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Ouch, 64K atomic DMA allocation.
The DMA zone barely even keeps that much total memory free.
The caller probably wants fixing, but you could try this patch...