Re: 2.2.15pre19 (gcc version 2.7.2.3) eth messages

From: Andrey Savochkin (saw@saw.sw.com.sg)
Date: Wed Apr 19 2000 - 23:07:15 EST


Hello,

On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 11:59:47AM -0500, Jeffrey E. Hundstad wrote:
> I've placed 2.2.15pre19 on two of our servers. One is a SMB and ATALK
> file server and the other is a Usenet news server. Both have identical
> hardware. The ethernet card is a eepro100. The SMB/ATALK server is not
> reporting any problems. The news server is spewing the following (below)
> to syslog. The machine seems to be working fine, and ifconfig whilst
> reporting millions of packets is not reporting any problems.

That's the essence of the reports:
[snip]
> eth0: can't fill rx buffer (force 1)!
[snip]
It means that you system experienced out-of-memory conditions and dropped some
incoming packets. The reports are so verbose because previous version of the
driver just hung in such conditions.

If temporary out-of-memory situations is not the intended configuration of
the system try to increase /proc/sys/vm/freepages numbers.

Best regards
                                        Andrey V.
                                        Savochkin

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