Re: E1000 - page allocation failure - saga continues :(

[Yann Dupont]

Lukas Hejtmanek a écrit :

>On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 02:10:31PM +0200, Yann Dupont wrote:
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>>I have those problems too. The (temporary ?) fix is to raise the
>>min_free_kb to an higher value.
>>echo 65535 > /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes
>>
>>Maybe such an high value is totally silly, but at least I don't have
>>those messages.
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>I know that kernel 2.6.6-bk4 works. So were there some memory manager changes
>since 2.6.6? If so it looks like there are some bugs. 
>On the other hand, ethernet driver should not allocate much memory but rather
>drop packets.
>
>Btw, are you using some TCP tweaks? E.g. I have default TCP window size 1MB.
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Do you have turned NAPI on ??? I tried without it off on e1000 and ...
surprise !
Don't have any messages since 12H now (usually I got those in less than 1H)

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