Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261577AbVEJITt (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 May 2005 04:19:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261578AbVEJITt (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 May 2005 04:19:49 -0400 Received: from smtp200.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([216.136.130.125]:25448 "HELO smtp200.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261577AbVEJITr (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 May 2005 04:19:47 -0400 Message-ID: <42806EA0.2070501@yahoo.com.au> Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 18:19:44 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050324 Debian/1.7.6-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linuxkernel2.20.sandos@spamgourmet.com CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: E1000 - page allocation failure - saga continues :( References: <42806B78.2020708@home.se> In-Reply-To: <42806B78.2020708@home.se> 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: 768 Lines: 23 linuxkernel2.20.sandos@spamgourmet.com wrote: > >Anyway i'll try to catch THE option that make the kernel not so happy > >under heavy stress. Stay tuned > > How did this turn out? Any luck? Im seeing this same problem with my > e1000, now I did enable rx/tx flow control, I reniced kswapd and I > changed vm.min_free_kbytes to 65536, and the problem went away. > > It would be nice with a "cleaner" solution though. > What kernel are you using? Are you doing a lot of block IO as well? -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. - 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/