Re: oops with dual xeon 2.8ghz 4gb ram +smp, software raid, lvm, and xfs

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 09:45:49AM -0600, Phil Dier wrote:
> Looks like 8k stacks did the trick, at least for the oops. Now I'm
> seeing the stuff below.
> 
> I got a ton more of this with jfs and xfs, but it seems much less with
> reiser. Should I be worried, or is this something I can safely ignore?
> It doesn't lock the system..  Could files be getting corrupted?
> 
> 
> Nov 23 17:38:20 calculon swapper: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20

This is pretty harmless.  It just means the NIC driver couldn't allocate as
much memory in the RX path as it wanted.  Try increasing
/proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes to make the warnings go away and get less packet
drops

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