Re: E1000 - page allocation failure - saga continues :(

[Lukas Hejtmanek <xhejtman@mail.muni.cz>]

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.

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Lukáš Hejtmánek