Re: 2.6.14.3 and page allocation failures..

From: Jesse Brandeburg
Date: Wed Jan 25 2006 - 17:57:48 EST


On 1/23/06, Sai Bathina <sai.bathina@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am seeing page allocation errors and I have a snapshot of the
> /var/log/messages.
>
> My Hardware configs are
> Dell 750, using e1000 driver(e1000-6.2.15)

there is a leak in the 6.2.15 driver (this leak was not in the code
submitted to the kernel)

you can either use 6.3.9 or you can fix this by applying this attached
patch (or something similar)

Jesse

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