From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030393AbWK3PRk (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:17:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030376AbWK3PRk (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:17:40 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:48873 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030375AbWK3PRk (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:17:40 -0500 Subject: Re: kswapd/tg3 issue From: Arjan van de Ven To: Yaroslav Halchenko Cc: Alan , linux kernel mailing list In-Reply-To: <20061130151003.GM2021@washoe.onerussian.com> References: <20061130144355.GK2021@washoe.onerussian.com> <20061130150406.3d0b6afd@localhost.localdomain> <20061130151003.GM2021@washoe.onerussian.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Intel International BV Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:17:32 +0100 Message-Id: <1164899853.3233.19.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.1.1 (2.8.1.1-3.fc6) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 10:10 -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > Thank you Alan > > Ok - I am adding more memory in my purchasing plan ;-) For now I guess > adding swap space should help, right? actually since this was networking... you probably should bump the value in /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes a bit (like by 50%); that makes the kernel keep a bigger pool free for emergencies/spikes... That might be enough already if your system isn't swapping a whole lot. -- if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com Test the interaction between Linux and your BIOS via http://www.linuxfirmwarekit.org