On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 02:51:58AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
I'd be interested in knowing if this fixes it - I don't expect it will,
because that's a zero-order allocation failure. He's really out of memory.
The e1000 driver has a default rx ring size of 256 which seems a bit nutty:
a back-to-back GFP_ATOMIC allocation of 256 skbs could easily exhaust the
page allocator pools.
Probably this machine needs to increase /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes.
It did not help.