What do the error messages "cifsd: page allocation failure. order:3" mean and is there a way to prevent them?
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This message is usually harmless, although it can indicate memory pressure.
If the additional message "no memory for large SMB response" is logged, configuration changes may be necessary to ease memory pressure.
The cifs network filesystem client, cifs.ko, which is used to access CIFS servers such as Samba and Windows, uses buffers larger than the typica...
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