Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262051AbVDRMWU (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Apr 2005 08:22:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262053AbVDRMWU (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Apr 2005 08:22:20 -0400 Received: from hell.sks3.muni.cz ([147.251.210.30]:28331 "EHLO hell.sks3.muni.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262051AbVDRMWK (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Apr 2005 08:22:10 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 14:22:02 +0200 From: Lukas Hejtmanek To: Yann Dupont Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: E1000 - page allocation failure - saga continues :( Message-ID: <20050418122202.GE26030@mail.muni.cz> References: <20050414214828.GB9591@mail.muni.cz> <4263A3B7.6010702@univ-nantes.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <4263A3B7.6010702@univ-nantes.fr> X-echelon: NSA, CIA, CI5, MI5, FBI, KGB, BIS, Plutonium, Bin Laden, bomb User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 867 Lines: 22 On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 02:10:31PM +0200, Yann Dupont wrote: > 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. 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. -- Luk?? Hejtm?nek - 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/