Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262062AbVDRMkN (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Apr 2005 08:40:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262059AbVDRMkM (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Apr 2005 08:40:12 -0400 Received: from Smtp2.univ-nantes.fr ([193.52.82.19]:55230 "EHLO smtp2.univ-nantes.fr") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262065AbVDRMj6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Apr 2005 08:39:58 -0400 Message-ID: <4263AA9D.3000505@univ-nantes.fr> Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 14:39:57 +0200 From: Yann Dupont Organization: CRIUN User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050404) X-Accept-Language: fr, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lukas Hejtmanek Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: E1000 - page allocation failure - saga continues :( References: <20050414214828.GB9591@mail.muni.cz> <4263A3B7.6010702@univ-nantes.fr> <20050418122202.GE26030@mail.muni.cz> <4263A70F.5060409@univ-nantes.fr> <20050418123457.GF26030@mail.muni.cz> In-Reply-To: <20050418123457.GF26030@mail.muni.cz> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1426 Lines: 44 Lukas Hejtmanek a ?crit : >On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 02:24:47PM +0200, Yann Dupont wrote: > > >>>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. >>> >>> >>> >>No tweaking at all. No jumbo frames. >> >> > >There were assumptions that it is XFS related. Are you using XFS on that box? > >I'm able to deterministically produce this error: >on XFS partition store a file from network using multiple threads. If file size >is bigger then total memory, then it fails after major part of memory is used >for a file cache. > > > Ah yes, this is the case. XFS all over ... The server is quite heavily stressed, we have a bunch of servers rsyncing on a big SAN volume - formatted with XFS, that's right. (and, if that matters, XFS in on top of a EVMS volume (on top of a LVM2 region)...) -- Yann Dupont, Cri de l'universit? de Nantes Tel: 02.51.12.53.91 - Fax: 02.51.12.58.60 - Yann.Dupont@univ-nantes.fr - 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/