Re: 2.6.9 - e1000 - page allocation failed

From: Lukas Hejtmanek
Date: Wed Nov 03 2004 - 09:15:36 EST


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.

However. I have two machines very similar and one opses and one does not.
I wondered why. I've found out that if I turn whole netfilter to module and
disable:
CONFIG_NET_IPGRE=y
CONFIG_IP_MROUTE=y
CONFIG_IP_PIMSM_V1=y
CONFIG_IP_PIMSM_V2=y

Then problem seems to disappeare on both...

(I do not use iptables on any machine)

--
Lukáš Hejtmánek
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