From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262057AbVDRMfB (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Apr 2005 08:35:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262058AbVDRMfB (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Apr 2005 08:35:01 -0400 Received: from hell.sks3.muni.cz ([147.251.210.30]:30668 "EHLO hell.sks3.muni.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262057AbVDRMe7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Apr 2005 08:34:59 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 14:34:57 +0200 From: Lukas Hejtmanek To: Yann Dupont Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: E1000 - page allocation failure - saga continues :( Message-ID: <20050418123457.GF26030@mail.muni.cz> References: <20050414214828.GB9591@mail.muni.cz> <4263A3B7.6010702@univ-nantes.fr> <20050418122202.GE26030@mail.muni.cz> <4263A70F.5060409@univ-nantes.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <4263A70F.5060409@univ-nantes.fr> X-echelon: NSA, CIA, CI5, MI5, FBI, KGB, BIS, Plutonium, Bin Laden, bomb User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. -- Lukáš Hejtmánek