Hi Gabor,

On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 10:43:06AM +0200, Gabor Z. Papp wrote:
> * "pradeep singh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 
> | > __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x20/0)
> | > eth0: Memory squeeze, dropping packet.
> 
> | It looks you ran out of single page frames on your machine.
> | What did you with your machine which triggered this?
> | Were you running some memory intensive processes too?
> 
> Seeding a few gigs with rtorrent. :-)
> 
> But I don't think I have big traffic:
> 
> $ netstat -t | wc -l
> 37
> 
> Nothing more, its a seeding host only.

I've already encountered this when doing network stress-testing,
with thousands of concurrent sessions and very large TCP buffers.

37 sockets does not seem much. Maybe you have very large buffers.
You may want to check /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_rmem and tcp_wmem,
and maybe reduce the values there.

Regards,
Willy

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