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[Dave Jones]

manfred@colorfullife.com	
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Subject: Re: Linux 2.5.5-dj1 - Bug Reports
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In-Reply-To: <20020228165951.GA4014@faceprint.com>; from faceprint@faceprint.com on Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 11:59:54AM -0500

 > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 02:21:49AM +0100, Dave Jones wrote:
 > > >  > It compiled fine. When I booted up everything looked normal with the
 > > >  > exception of a 
 > > >  > eth1: going OOM 
 > > >  > message that kept scrolling down the screen. My eth1 is a natsemi card.
 > > > 
 > > >  That's interesting. Probably moreso for Manfred. I'll double check
 > > >  I didn't goof merging the oom-handling patch tomorrow.
 > > 
 > > Ditto here on my natsemi.  It hasn't really spit out the error since
 > > boot, about 12 hours ago.  Card has been mainly idle, only used to
 > > connect via crossover cable to my laptop, which hasn't been used much in
 > > that time.
 > 
 > dj2 is showing the same behavior, but I found out that the messages
 > continue to be printed 100 times/second until I ping-flooded the machine
 > on the other end of that card.  The minimal DHCP traffic prior to the
 > ping flood was not enough to make it stop.
 > 
 > Hope this helps narrow down the problem some.

 Yup, Manfred is aware of this, but hasn't had time to look into it yet.

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