Hi,
The default ones should be fine. You have something that is doing a lot of small kernel allocations so your free memory in that "pool" is running out of space, and the kernel is having to fall back on another one. It's not really a big deal, as the message says, but tracking down the root cause might be good to do, if at all possible.
Sorry, got that wrong, Jeff is right, this is a "big" allocation that is needed. The nvidia driver is known for taking up these memory blocks, so this should go away if you remove that driver.
In the process of hunting this issue down, I'd --force reinstalled kernel, nouveau & nvidia drivers. Of course, now, I'm completely unable to reproduce the problem. At all. Neither video driver, nor /proc/sys/vm/* settings, not any activity I can muster triggers those errors. I _will_ work to understand and narrow down some of the additional issues Jeff identified, and if other than PEBKAC, I'll follow up here. Thanks to both. /C -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+owner@opensuse.org