Created attachment 273819 [details] excerpt from /var/log/messages My server has two NICs. One of them, the one facing Internet is a VIA Velocity card. Every time there is a lot of traffic going into the server through the VIA NIC, I get this: swapper: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x4020 Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.38-gentoo-r5 #1 Call Trace: I am able to reproduce this by downloading a fast torrent with rtorrent. When this happens, I have to restart /etc/init.d/net.eth0. I do not have this problem with eth1, which is an Intel NIC, no matter how much traffic I push through it. I have had this problem since I bought this mainboard (VIA VB8001). This is about one year of kernet versions. My Internet connection is about 100 Mbit/s downstream. The full trace is attached. Let me know if you need anything more.
I think this is somewhat similar to bug 366745 I've read some discussions on some mailing lists and they propose increasing /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes (to 16M or 64M). Can you post the output of cat /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes ?
Please reopen if still or issue and provide the data requested
# cat /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes 8192 I think that I have tried to increase that value before without any effect. I will try it once again just to make sure.
