On Mon, 08 Mar 2010, maximilian attems wrote: > On Sun, 07 Mar 2010, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > > > Package: linux-2.6 > > Version: 2.6.32-9 > > Severity: normal > > > > The iwlagn driver seems to be buggy in the 2.6.32 release. On this > > kernel (not sure of the earlier ones as I recently got this machine) I > > have been noticing too many OOMs and iwlagn driver failure. kernel logs > > report memory allocation failure. > > > > dmesg log is attached. > > > > Most of the time this problem starts occuring when I am pumping I/O > > through my wifi network device > > > > > > Regards, > > Ritesh > > > [135314.860623] ifconfig: page allocation failure. order:4, mode:0x40d0 > > [135314.860634] Pid: 6831, comm: ifconfig Tainted: G W > > 2.6.32-3-amd64 > > yep, have seen above on any linux-2.6 since I got this x61s. > > please test 2.6.33 from experimental, not sure it is fixed. > hadn't time to check it myself, but according to > 2f301227a1ede57504694e1f64839839f5737cac it should behave much better. > > aboves patch is huge and doesn't apply out of the box to 2.6.32, > but looks like a valid backport candidate, didn't check on what it > depends.
88804e2b33b6ab3974ff2330cd045ca53d6750c5 looks like another worthwile improvement. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
