From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261674AbUKXCDF (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Nov 2004 21:03:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261677AbUKXCDE (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Nov 2004 21:03:04 -0500 Received: from linuxfools.org ([216.107.2.99]:33975 "EHLO loki.linuxfools.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261674AbUKXCDA (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Nov 2004 21:03:00 -0500 Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 21:30:13 -0500 From: jhigdon@linuxfools.org To: "Piszcz, Justin Michael" Cc: Ake , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.9 page allocation failure Message-ID: <20041124023013.GA2945@linuxfools.org> References: <2E314DE03538984BA5634F12115B3A4E01BC40DC@email1.mitretek.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2E314DE03538984BA5634F12115B3A4E01BC40DC@email1.mitretek.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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.