Subject: Re: r8169: page allocation failure

From: Jan Killius <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 22:12:14 +0200

On Saturday 16 October 2004 21:54, you wrote:
> Jan Killius <[email-masked]> :
> [...]
>
> > I've tried to map them down but I didn't have any success. The adresses
> > weren't in my System.map.
>
> Were they not at least between two addresses in your System.map ?
Here is the first error I have attached my bzipped System.map
Oct 16 19:27:00 gate swapper: page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x20
Oct 16 19:27:00 gate [<c013131e>]
Oct 16 19:27:00 gate [<c0131458>]
Oct 16 19:27:00 gate [<c0134337>]
Oct 16 19:27:00 gate [<c0134eaa>]
Oct 16 19:27:00 gate [<c013510d>]
Oct 16 19:27:00 gate [<c01354cc>]
Oct 16 19:27:00 gate [<c01ff1c0>]
Oct 16 19:27:00 gate [<c022d975>]
Oct 16 19:27:00 gate [<c022ddb2>]
Oct 16 19:27:00 gate [<c022eaa1>]
Oct 16 19:27:00 gate [<c022ec44>]
Oct 16 19:27:00 gate [<c0228f47>]
Oct 16 19:27:00 gate [<c022ba9e>]
Oct 16 19:27:00 gate [<c0234320>]
Oct 16 19:27:00 gate [<c0234a3e>]
Oct 16 19:27:00 gate [<c0219cf0>]
Oct 16 19:27:00 gate [<c0219d64>]
Oct 16 19:27:00 gate [<c020dd47>]
Oct 16 19:27:00 gate [<c0219cf0>]
Oct 16 19:27:00 gate [<c0219c54>]
Oct 16 19:27:00 gate [<c0219cf0>]
Oct 16 19:27:00 gate [<c021a478>]
Oct 16 19:27:00 gate [<c020d9d5>]
Oct 16 19:27:00 gate [<c021a2f0>]
Oct 16 19:27:00 gate [<c021a2f0>]
Oct 16 19:27:00 gate [<c020dd47>]
Oct 16 19:27:00 gate [<c021a2f0>]
Oct 16 19:27:00 gate [<c021a1f5>]
Oct 16 19:27:00 gate [<c021a2f0>]
Oct 16 19:27:00 gate [<c0106174>]
Oct 16 19:27:00 gate [<c0204e42>]
Oct 16 19:27:00 gate [<e087150c>]
Oct 16 19:27:00 gate [<e08715c0>]
Oct 16 19:27:00 gate [<e08717a4>]
Oct 16 19:27:00 gate [<c0205011>]
Oct 16 19:27:00 gate [<c011aae2>]
Oct 16 19:27:00 gate [<c011ab56>]
Oct 16 19:27:00 gate [<c0106516>]
Oct 16 19:27:00 gate [<c010454c>]
Oct 16 19:27:00 gate [<c0101d73>]
Oct 16 19:27:00 gate [<c0101ded>]
Oct 16 19:27:00 gate [<c02d677f>]
Oct 16 19:27:00 gate [<c02d6390>]

>
> [...]
>
> > The system is behaving normal, only the data rate is stagnating.
>
> Rate value and 'vmstat 1' for a few seconds during test would be
> welcome.
 1  0 131328  54876  15540  43616    0    0     0   132 33110  6424  0 93  7 0
 1  0 131328  54812  15540  43616    0    0     0     0 35681 18766  2 90  8 0
 1  0 131328  54428  15540  43616    0    0     0     0 35664 19280  0 91  9 0
 1  0 131328  53340  15540  43616    0    0     0     0 35668 18263  1 91  8 0
 1  0 131328  53404  15540  43616    0    0     0     0 35745 20324  2 90  8 0
 1  0 131328  53412  15540  43616    0    0     0     0 35688 20244  0 92  8 0
 2  0 131328  53412  15540  43616    0    0     0     0 34983 18064  1 89 10 0
 1  0 131328  53476  15540  43616    0    0     0     0 35373 20532  1 89 10 0
 1  0 131328  53404  15548  43616    0    0     8   140 35484 19244  1 89  9 1
 1  0 131328  53404  15548  43616    0    0     0     0 35221 20991  1 89 10 0
 1  0 131328  53388  15548  43616    0    0     0     0 35456 19485  1 91  8 0
 1  0 131328  53388  15556  43616    0    0     0    24 35547 20610  1 91  8 0
 2  0 131328  53388  15556  43616    0    0     0     0 35398 19624  1 90  9 0
 2  0 131328  53388  15556  43616    0    0     0     0 35610 19196  1 88 11 0
 1  0 131328  53452  15556  43616    0    0     0     0 35657 20496  1 89 10 0
 1  0 131328  53452  15556  43616    0    0     0     0 35834 20126  1 91  8 0
 1  0 131328  53452  15556  43616    0    0     0     0 35605 20334  1 92  7 0
 1  0 131328  53468  15556  43616    0    0     0     0 35819 20711  1 91  8 0
 2  0 131328  53468  15556  43616    0    0     0     0 35769 19753  1 77 22 0
 1  0 131328  53468  15556  43616    0    0     0     0 35810 21609  1 89 10 0
 1  0 131328  53404  15556  43616    0    0     0     0 35151 21286  0 90 10 0
 1  0 131328  53476  15556  43616    0    0     0     0 35508 21409  1 91  8 0
 1  0 131328  53476  15556  43616    0    0     0     0 35216 22581  1 89 10 0
 1  0 131328  53468  15572  43616    0    0     8    80 35276 20625  1 89 10 0
 2  0 131328  53212  15572  43616    0    0     0     0 36289 19173  2 90  8 0
 1  0 131328  45340  15572  43616    0    0     0     0 31957  9366 14 82  4 0
 2  0 131328  45404  15572  43616    0    0     0     0 35237 21628  1 90  9 0
 1  0 131328  45468  15572  43616    0    0     0     0 35666 21426  1 88 11 0
 1  0 131328  45276  15668  43708    0    0     0   272 35269 20345  1 90  9 0
 1  0 131328  45276  15668  43708    0    0     0     0 35348 21849  2 88 10 0
 1  0 131328  45276  15668  43708    0    0     0     0 35358 20267  1 89 10 0
 1  0 131328  45276  15668  43708    0    0     0     0 35449 20505  1 90  9 0
 1  0 131328  45284  15668  43708    0    0     0     0 35403 19478  0 91  9 0
 2  0 131328  45284  15676  43708    0    0     0   100 35653 20336  1 90  9 0
 1  0 131328  45284  15676  43708    0    0     0     0 35653 19626  2 88 10 0
 1  0 131328  45284  15676  43708    0    0     0     0 35545 20062  0 92  8 0
 1  0 131328  45220  15676  43708    0    0     0     0 35867 20312  1 92  7 0
 1  0 131328  45284  15676  43708    0    0     0     0 35410 18833  1 79 20 0
>
> <finger in the wind>
> Can you disable TSO and tell if the messages disappear ?
> </finger in the wind>
with TSO off there are no messages.
>
> > Now I have new errors:
> > eth2: Rx buffers exhausted
> > The system is still running and the network is functional too.
>
> You are running with NAPI enabled, right ?
Yes.
>
> Please, pretty please, keep the Cc: on netdev. It is archived and
> googlable whereas my mailbox is not.
sorry.
> --
> Ueimor

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        Jan