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I just checked the modem as strangely my PC reset itself...

<5>__alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x20/0)
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<4>Failed to allocate skb for eth0.
<5>__alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x20/0)
<5>__alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x20/0)
<4>Failed to allocate skb for eth0.
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<5>__alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x20/1)
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<5>__alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
<5>VM: killing process ash
<5>__alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)

ps -ax
  PID  Uid     VmSize Stat Command
    1 root        100 S   init
    2 root            SW  [keventd]
    3 root            SWN [ksoftirqd_CPU0]
    4 root            SW  [kswapd]
    5 root            SW  [bdflush]
    6 root            SW  [kupdated]
    7 root            SW  [mtdblockd]
   24 root            SWN [jffs2_gcd_mtd4]
   43 root        200 S   syslogd -C 16
   47 root         64 S   init
  467 root        256 S   crond -c /etc/crontabs
  473 root        164 S   /usr/sbin/dropbear
  484 root         76 S   httpd -p 80 -h /www -r OpenWrt
  599 nobody      292 S   dnsmasq -C /proc/self/fd/0
  863 root        184 S   /usr/sbin/pppd plugin pppoatm.so 8.35 vc-encaps mtu 1
6000 root        572 S   /usr/sbin/dropbear
6001 root        544 S   -ash
6072 root            Z   [sh]
6081 root        368 R   ps -ax

cat /proc/meminfo
        total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
Mem:  14671872 13565952  1105920        0   491520  4775936
Swap:        0        0        0
MemTotal:        14328 kB
MemFree:          1080 kB
MemShared:           0 kB
Buffers:           480 kB
Cached:           4664 kB
SwapCached:          0 kB
Active:           3752 kB
Inactive:         1404 kB
HighTotal:           0 kB
HighFree:            0 kB
LowTotal:        14328 kB
LowFree:          1080 kB
SwapTotal:           0 kB
SwapFree:            0 kB

(Last edited by Z3r0 on 22 Dec 2006, 13:52)

I had this error today too.

many
kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x20/0)

in the syslog.

I have 0.9, running on WRT54G 1.1

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