Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271293AbUJVMrP (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 08:47:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271260AbUJVMqG (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 08:46:06 -0400 Received: from smtp206.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([216.136.129.96]:19073 "HELO smtp206.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S271300AbUJVMpR (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 08:45:17 -0400 Message-ID: <417900D6.4030902@yahoo.com.au> Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 22:45:10 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040820 Debian/1.7.2-4 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lukas Hejtmanek CC: Andrew Morton , Francois Romieu , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.9 - e1000 - page allocation failed References: <20041021221622.GA11607@mail.muni.cz> <20041021225825.GA10844@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> <20041022025158.7737182c.akpm@osdl.org> <20041022120821.GA12619@mail.muni.cz> In-Reply-To: <20041022120821.GA12619@mail.muni.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 842 Lines: 22 Lukas Hejtmanek wrote: > 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. > What did you increase it to? What was the allocation failure message? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/