[Openswan Users] Pluto Page Allocation Failure

[Jason Sigurdur]

Hi, thanks for the quick reply I also got a reply from 'Paul Wouters' 


pluto: page allocation failure. order:4, mode:0xd0 Aug 23 09:47:49 GW7 
> kernel: Call Trace:
> Aug 23 09:47:49 GW7 kernel:  [<0212ebf3>] __alloc_pages+0x274/0x281 
> Aug 23 09:47:49 GW7 kernel:  [<0212ec18>] __get_free_pages+0x18/0x24 
> Aug 23 09:47:49 GW7 kernel:  [<02130fef>] cache_grow+0x80/0x205 Aug 23 
> 09:47:49 GW7 kernel:  [<021312a4>] cache_alloc_refill+0x130/0x15f Aug 
> 23 09:47:49 GW7 kernel:  [<02131464>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x3f/0x45 Aug 
> 23 09:47:49 GW7 kernel:  [<1290e8af>] ipcomp_init_state+0x6a/0xdb 
> [ipcomp]

Okay, this is most certainly the 2.6 memory fragmentation bug. Upgrade your
kernel (to 2.6.8.1 ?)

Paul







-----Original Message-----
From: Herbert Xu [mailto:herbert at gondor.apana.org.au] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 8:09 PM
To: jason.sigurdur at ASPENVIEW.ORG
Cc: users at lists.openswan.org
Subject: Re: [Openswan Users] Pluto Page Allocation Failure

Jason Sigurdur <jason.sigurdur at aspenview.org> wrote:
> I am using FC2 with openswan version 2.1.2. With 16 tunnels. Every few 
> days Pluto consumes 50+ percent of cpu ussage and I get the following
error:
> 
> kernel: pluto: page allocation failure. order:4, mode:0xd0

Do you use IPCOMP? If so, it's a known kernel problem and will be fixed
soon.  In the mean time just disable IPCOMP.

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