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From: jhigdon@linuxfools.org
To: "Piszcz, Justin Michael" <justin.piszcz@mitretek.org>
Cc: Ake <Ake.Sandgren@hpc2n.umu.se>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.9 page allocation failure
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 21:30:13 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041124023013.GA2945@linuxfools.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2E314DE03538984BA5634F12115B3A4E01BC40DC@email1.mitretek.org>

On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 08:39:13AM -0500, Piszcz, Justin Michael wrote:
> This is a known problem with the Intel Gigabit NIC and possibly other
> NIC's dealing with TSO (tcp segmentation offload).
> 
> Either try turning it off (with ethtool) or wait until 2.6.10 is
> released or try the latest -mm tree as Andrew Morton is working on
> fixing this issue.
> 
> This problem began with 2.6.9 and has been reported on the list quite a
> few times now :)
> 
> 

Seeing it with Broadcom gigabit too BCM5704. I am trying .10-rc2 and
havent seen any problems yet, but with min_free_kbytes set to 8192
instead of the previous default this problem took 3-5 days to show
itself, hopefully that wont be the case with this kernel.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-11-24  2:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-23 13:39 2.6.9 page allocation failure Piszcz, Justin Michael
2004-11-23 23:08 ` Bernd Schubert
2004-11-24  2:30 ` jhigdon [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-11-23  9:52 Ake

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