Re: 2.2.15pre19 (gcc version 2.7.2.3) eth messages

From: Jeffrey E. Hundstad (jeffrey.hundstad@mankato.msus.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 25 2000 - 10:12:00 EST


I changed the standard freepages allocations as such:
echo "1024 2048 3072" > /proc/sys/vm/freepages

and the message went away.

Thanks for all those that helped:
  Andrew Morton
  Andrey Savochkin
  Tim Oertel

ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
"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.

  Thanks,
  Jeffrey Hundstad
  Minnesota State University, Mankato

  vvvvvvvvvIFCONFIGvvvvvvvv

  eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
            inet addr:a.b.c.d Bcast:a2.b2.c2.d2 Mask:255.255.255.0
            UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
            RX packets:1919622 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
            TX packets:1340685 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
            collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
            Interrupt:11 Base address:0x8000

  vvvvvSYSLOGvvvvvv

  eth0: Printing Rx ring (next to receive into 936742, dirty index
  936734).
  eth0: 0 00000000.
  eth0: 1 00000000.
  eth0: 2 00000000.
  eth0: 3 00000000.
  eth0: 4 00000000.
  eth0: 5 00000000.
  eth0: = 6 00000001.
  eth0: 7 00000001.
  eth0: 8 00000001.
  eth0: 9 00000001.
  eth0: 10 00000001.
  eth0: 11 00000001.
  eth0: 12 00000001.
  eth0: 13 00000001.
  eth0: 14 00000001.
  eth0: 15 00000001.
  eth0: 16 00000001.
  eth0: 17 00000001.
  eth0: 18 00000001.
  eth0: 19 00000001.
  eth0: 20 00000001.
  eth0: 21 00000001.
  eth0: 22 00000001.
  eth0: 23 00000001.
  eth0: 24 00000001.
  eth0: 25 00000001.
  eth0: 26 00000001.
  eth0: 27 00000001.
  eth0: 28 00000001.
  eth0: l 29 c0000001.
  eth0: * 30 00000000.
  eth0: 31 00000000.
  eth0: PHY index 1 register 0 is 2100.
  eth0: PHY index 1 register 1 is 780d.
  eth0: PHY index 1 register 2 is 02a8.
  eth0: PHY index 1 register 3 is 0150.
  eth0: PHY index 1 register 4 is 05e1.
  eth0: PHY index 1 register 5 is 0081.
  eth0: PHY index 1 register 21 is 0000.
  eth0: can't fill rx buffer (force 1)!
  eth0: Tx ring dump, Tx queue 633501 / 633501:
  eth0: 0 200ca000.
  eth0: 1 000ca000.
  eth0: 2 000ca000.
  eth0: 3 000ca000.
  eth0: 4 000ca000.
  eth0: 5 000ca000.
  eth0: 6 000ca000.
  eth0: 7 000ca000.
  eth0: 8 200ca000.
  eth0: 9 000ca000.
  eth0: 10 000ca000.
  eth0: 11 000ca000.
  eth0: 12 000ca000.
  eth0: 13 000ca000.
  eth0: 14 000ca000.
  eth0: 15 000ca000.
  eth0: 16 200ca000.
  eth0: 17 000ca000.
  eth0: 18 000ca000.
  eth0: 19 000ca000.
  eth0: 20 000ca000.
  eth0: 21 000ca000.
  eth0: 22 000ca000.
  eth0: 23 000ca000.
  eth0: 24 200ca000.
  eth0: 25 000ca000.
  eth0: 26 000ca000.
  eth0: 27 000ca000.
  eth0: 28 400ca000.
  eth0: *=29 000ca000.
  eth0: 30 000ca000.
  eth0: 31 000ca000.
  eth0: Printing Rx ring (next to receive into 936743, dirty index
  936735).
  eth0: 0 00000000.
  eth0: 1 00000000.
  eth0: 2 00000000.
  eth0: 3 00000000.
  eth0: 4 00000000.
  eth0: 5 00000000.
  eth0: 6 00000000.
  eth0: = 7 00000001.
  eth0: 8 00000001.
  eth0: 9 00000001.
  eth0: 10 00000001.
  eth0: 11 00000001.
  eth0: 12 00000001.
  eth0: 13 00000001.
  eth0: 14 00000001.
  eth0: 15 00000001.
  eth0: 16 00000001.
  eth0: 17 00000001.
  eth0: 18 00000001.
  eth0: 19 00000001.
  eth0: 20 00000001.
  eth0: 21 00000001.
  eth0: 22 00000001.
  eth0: 23 00000001.
  eth0: 24 00000001.
  eth0: 25 00000001.
  eth0: 26 00000001.
  eth0: 27 00000001.
  eth0: 28 00000001.
  eth0: 29 00000001.
  eth0: l 30 c0000001.
  eth0: * 31 00000000.
  eth0: PHY index 1 register 0 is 2100.
  eth0: PHY index 1 register 1 is 780d.
  eth0: PHY index 1 register 2 is 02a8.
  eth0: PHY index 1 register 3 is 0150.
  eth0: PHY index 1 register 4 is 05e1.
  eth0: PHY index 1 register 5 is 0081.
  eth0: PHY index 1 register 21 is 0000.
  eth0: can't fill rx buffer (force 1)!
  eth0: Tx ring dump, Tx queue 633503 / 633503:
  eth0: 0 200ca000.
  eth0: 1 000ca000.
  eth0: 2 000ca000.
  eth0: 3 000ca000.
  eth0: 4 000ca000.
  eth0: 5 000ca000.
  eth0: 6 000ca000.
  eth0: 7 000ca000.
  eth0: 8 200ca000.
  eth0: 9 000ca000.
  eth0: 10 000ca000.
  eth0: 11 000ca000.
  eth0: 12 000ca000.
  eth0: 13 000ca000.
  eth0: 14 000ca000.
  eth0: 15 000ca000.
  eth0: 16 200ca000.
  eth0: 17 000ca000.
  eth0: 18 000ca000.
  eth0: 19 000ca000.
  eth0: 20 000ca000.
  eth0: 21 000ca000.
  eth0: 22 000ca000.
  eth0: 23 000ca000.
  eth0: 24 200ca000.
  eth0: 25 000ca000.
  eth0: 26 000ca000.
  eth0: 27 000ca000.
  eth0: 28 000ca000.
  eth0: 29 000ca000.
  eth0: 30 400ca000.
  eth0: *=31 000ca000.
  eth0: Printing Rx ring (next to receive into 936744, dirty index
  936736).
  eth0: * 0 00000000.
  eth0: 1 00000000.
  eth0: 2 00000000.
  eth0: 3 00000000.
  eth0: 4 00000000.
  eth0: 5 00000000.
  eth0: 6 00000000.
  eth0: 7 00000000.
  eth0: = 8 00000001.
  eth0: 9 00000001.
  eth0: 10 00000001.
  eth0: 11 00000001.
  eth0: 12 00000001.
  eth0: 13 00000001.
  eth0: 14 00000001.
  eth0: 15 00000001.
  eth0: 16 00000001.
  eth0: 17 00000001.
  eth0: 18 00000001.
  eth0: 19 00000001.
  eth0: 20 00000001.
  eth0: 21 00000001.
  eth0: 22 00000001.
  eth0: 23 00000001.
  eth0: 24 00000001.
  eth0: 25 00000001.
  eth0: 26 00000001.
  eth0: 27 00000001.
  eth0: 28 00000001.
  eth0: 29 00000001.
  eth0: 30 00000001.
  eth0: l 31 c0000001.
  eth0: PHY index 1 register 0 is 2100.
  eth0: PHY index 1 register 1 is 780d.
  eth0: PHY index 1 register 2 is 02a8.
  eth0: PHY index 1 register 3 is 0150.
  eth0: PHY index 1 register 4 is 05e1.
  eth0: PHY index 1 register 5 is 0081.
  eth0: PHY index 1 register 21 is 0000.
  eth0: can't fill rx buffer (force 1)!
  eth0: Tx ring dump, Tx queue 633505 / 633505:
  eth0: 0 600ca000.
  eth0: *= 1 000ca000.
  eth0: 2 000ca000.
  eth0: 3 000ca000.
  eth0: 4 000ca000.
  eth0: 5 000ca000.
  eth0: 6 000ca000.
  eth0: 7 000ca000.
  eth0: 8 200ca000.
  eth0: 9 000ca000.
  eth0: 10 000ca000.
  eth0: 11 000ca000.
  eth0: 12 000ca000.
  eth0: 13 000ca000.
  eth0: 14 000ca000.
  eth0: 15 000ca000.
  eth0: 16 200ca000.
  eth0: 17 000ca000.
  eth0: 18 000ca000.
  eth0: 19 000ca000.
  eth0: 20 000ca000.
  eth0: 21 000ca000.
  eth0: 22 000ca000.
  eth0: 23 000ca000.
  eth0: 24 200ca000.
  eth0: 25 000ca000.
  eth0: 26 000ca000.
  eth0: 27 000ca000.
  eth0: 28 000ca000.
  eth0: 29 000ca000.
  eth0: 30 000ca000.
  eth0: 31 000ca000.
  eth0: Printing Rx ring (next to receive into 936745, dirty index
  936737).
  eth0: l 0 c0000001.
  eth0: * 1 00000000.
  eth0: 2 00000000.
  eth0: 3 00000000.
  eth0: 4 00000000.
  eth0: 5 00000000.
  eth0: 6 00000000.
  eth0: 7 00000000.
  eth0: 8 00000000.
  eth0: = 9 00000001.
  eth0: 10 00000001.
  eth0: 11 00000001.
  eth0: 12 00000001.
  eth0: 13 00000001.
  eth0: 14 00000001.
  eth0: 15 00000001.
  eth0: 16 00000001.
  eth0: 17 00000001.
  eth0: 18 00000001.
  eth0: 19 00000001.
  eth0: 20 00000001.
  eth0: 21 00000001.
  eth0: 22 00000001.
  eth0: 23 00000001.
  eth0: 24 00000001.
  eth0: 25 00000001.
  eth0: 26 00000001.
  eth0: 27 00000001.
  eth0: 28 00000001.
  eth0: 29 00000001.
  eth0: 30 00000001.
  eth0: 31 00000001.
  eth0: PHY index 1 register 0 is 2100.
  eth0: PHY index 1 register 1 is 780d.
  eth0: PHY index 1 register 2 is 02a8.
  eth0: PHY index 1 register 3 is 0150.
  eth0: PHY index 1 register 4 is 05e1.
  eth0: PHY index 1 register 5 is 0081.
  eth0: PHY index 1 register 21 is 0000.

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