I have Ubuntu 9.04 server installed, and I see this problem too: [199458.249123] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.28-11-server #42-Ubuntu [199458.249126] Call Trace: [199458.249128] [] __alloc_pages_internal+0x3ee/0x4f0 [199458.249144] [] alloc_slab_page+0x28/0x30 [199458.249148] [] new_slab+0x5a/0x210 [199458.249152] [] __slab_alloc+0x188/0x290 [199458.249158] [] ? __netdev_alloc_skb+0x1f/0x40 [199458.249161] [] __kmalloc_track_caller+0xd7/0x110 [199458.249165] [] ? __netdev_alloc_skb+0x1f/0x40 [199458.249168] [] __alloc_skb+0x6e/0x150 [199458.249172] [] __netdev_alloc_skb+0x1f/0x40 [199458.249186] [] bnx2_rx_skb+0x74/0x7e0 [bnx2] [199458.249191] [] ? ip_rcv+0x264/0x2f0 [199458.249198] [] bnx2_rx_int+0x44e/0x7b0 [bnx2] [199458.249202] [] ? __kfree_skb+0x3a/0xa0 [199458.249208] [] ? bnx2_tx_int+0x151/0x2a0 [bnx2] [199458.249214] [] ? __trigger_all_cpu_backtrace+0x48/0x50 [199458.249220] [] bnx2_poll_work+0x70/0x90 [bnx2] [199458.249226] [] bnx2_poll+0x75/0x1a0 [bnx2] [199458.249231] [] ? getnstimeofday+0x59/0xe0 [199458.249236] [] net_rx_action+0x104/0x240 [199458.249240] [] __do_softirq+0x9c/0x170 [199458.249245] [] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30 [199458.249248] [] do_softirq+0x5d/0xa0 [199458.249251] [] irq_exit+0x8d/0xa0 [199458.249255] [] do_IRQ+0xc5/0x110 [199458.249258] [] ret_from_intr+0x0/0x29 [199458.249260] [] ? mwait_idle+0x4a/0x50 [199458.249268] [] ? enter_idle+0x22/0x30 [199458.249272] [] ? cpu_idle+0x65/0xc0 [199458.249277] [] ? start_secondary+0x9e/0xcb