Hi Gabor, On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 10:43:06AM +0200, Gabor Z. Papp wrote: > * "pradeep singh" <2500.pradeep@xxxxxxxxx>: > > | > __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x20/0) > | > eth0: Memory squeeze, dropping packet. > > | It looks you ran out of single page frames on your machine. > | What did you with your machine which triggered this? > | Were you running some memory intensive processes too? > > Seeding a few gigs with rtorrent. :-) > > But I don't think I have big traffic: > > $ netstat -t | wc -l > 37 > > Nothing more, its a seeding host only. I've already encountered this when doing network stress-testing, with thousands of concurrent sessions and very large TCP buffers. 37 sockets does not seem much. Maybe you have very large buffers. You may want to check /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_rmem and tcp_wmem, and maybe reduce the values there. Regards, Willy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
