User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4) Gecko/20091016 SUSE/3.5.4-1.1.2 Firefox/3.5.4 I have a box with a realtek8169 as the built in gigabit ethernet. I'm unable to put it under heavy network traffic as if I do the box hangs shortly thereafter. Can be replicated 100% of the time, within 2-3 minutes of heavy (network) load. Nov 22 16:34:33 frank kernel: [28634.284677] The following is only an harmless informational message. Nov 22 16:34:33 frank kernel: [28634.284687] Unless you get a _continuous_flood_ of these messages it means Nov 22 16:34:33 frank kernel: [28634.284693] everything is working fine. Allocations from irqs cannot be Nov 22 16:34:33 frank kernel: [28634.284697] perfectly reliable and the kernel is designed to handle that. Nov 22 16:34:33 frank kernel: [28634.284704] swapper: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20 Nov 22 16:34:33 frank kernel: [28634.284713] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.31.5-0.1-default #1 Nov 22 16:34:33 frank kernel: [28634.284718] Call Trace: Nov 22 16:34:33 frank kernel: [28634.284748] [] try_stack_unwind+0x189/0x1b0 Nov 22 16:34:33 frank kernel: [28634.284763] [] dump_trace+0x9d/0x330 Nov 22 16:34:33 frank kernel: [28634.284776] [] show_trace_log_lvl+0x64/0x90 Nov 22 16:34:33 frank kernel: [28634.284787] [] show_trace+0x23/0x40 Nov 22 16:34:33 frank kernel: [28634.284801] [] dump_stack+0x81/0x9e Nov 22 16:34:33 frank kernel: [28634.284814] [] __alloc_pages_slowpath+0x572/0x580 Nov 22 16:34:33 frank kernel: [28634.284826] [] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x151/0x160 Nov 22 16:34:33 frank kernel: [28634.284838] [] kmem_getpages+0x6c/0x190 Nov 22 16:34:33 frank kernel: [28634.284850] [] fallback_alloc+0x1ca/0x290 Nov 22 16:34:33 frank kernel: [28634.284861] [] ____cache_alloc_node+0xb0/0x1a0 Nov 22 16:34:33 frank kernel: [28634.284874] [] kmem_cache_alloc_node+0xa2/0x220 Nov 22 16:34:33 frank kernel: [28634.284885] [] __kmalloc_node+0x7f/0x110 Nov 22 16:34:33 frank kernel: [28634.284898] [] __alloc_skb+0x84/0x1a0 Nov 22 16:34:33 frank kernel: [28634.284910] [] __netdev_alloc_skb+0x40/0x80 Nov 22 16:34:33 frank kernel: [28634.284936] [] rtl8169_rx_fill+0xc8/0x280 [r8169] Nov 22 16:34:34 frank kernel: [28634.284966] [] rtl8169_rx_interrupt+0x3dc/0x590 [r8169] Nov 22 16:34:34 frank kernel: [28634.284990] [] rtl8169_poll+0x4a/0x298 [r8169] Nov 22 16:34:34 frank kernel: [28634.285011] [] net_rx_action+0x149/0x2e0 Nov 22 16:34:34 frank kernel: [28634.285024] [] __do_softirq+0xd3/0x240 Nov 22 16:34:34 frank kernel: [28634.285035] [] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30 Nov 22 16:34:34 frank kernel: [28634.285046] [] do_softirq+0xb5/0x110 Nov 22 16:34:34 frank kernel: [28634.285056] [] irq_exit+0xb5/0xd0 Nov 22 16:34:34 frank kernel: [28634.285066] [] do_IRQ+0x7c/0x100 Nov 22 16:34:34 frank kernel: [28634.285078] [] ret_from_intr+0x0/0x11 Nov 22 16:34:34 frank kernel: [28634.285092] [] native_safe_halt+0x6/0x10 Nov 22 16:34:34 frank kernel: [28634.285107] [] default_idle+0x62/0x120 Nov 22 16:34:34 frank kernel: [28634.285119] [] c1e_idle+0xc2/0x170 Nov 22 16:34:34 frank kernel: [28634.285129] [] cpu_idle+0xcc/0x120 Nov 22 16:34:34 frank kernel: [28634.285140] [] rest_init+0x79/0xa0 Nov 22 16:34:34 frank kernel: [28634.285152] [] start_kernel+0x3db/0x3f8 Nov 22 16:34:34 frank kernel: [28634.285165] [] x86_64_start_reservations+0x134/0x14f Nov 22 16:34:34 frank kernel: [28634.285176] [] x86_64_start_kernel+0x15b/0x17e Nov 22 16:34:34 frank kernel: [28634.285185] Mem-Info: Nov 22 16:34:34 frank kernel: [28634.285189] Node 0 DMA per-cpu: Nov 22 16:34:34 frank kernel: [28634.285196] CPU 0: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Nov 22 16:34:34 frank kernel: [28634.285201] CPU 1: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Nov 22 16:34:34 frank kernel: [28634.285206] CPU 2: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Nov 22 16:34:34 frank kernel: [28634.285210] CPU 3: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Nov 22 16:34:34 frank kernel: [28634.285214] Node 0 DMA32 per-cpu: Nov 22 16:34:34 frank kernel: [28634.285220] CPU 0: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 170 Nov 22 16:34:34 frank kernel: [28634.285226] CPU 1: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 162 Nov 22 16:34:34 frank kernel: [28634.285231] CPU 2: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 182 Nov 22 16:34:34 frank kernel: [28634.285235] CPU 3: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 178 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.