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From: "linuxkernel2.20.sandos@spamgourmet.com"  <majsetvger.100.sandos@spamgourmet.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: +linuxkernel2+sandos+f66671bddc.linux-kernel#vger.kernel.org@spamgourmet.com
Subject: Re: E1000 - page allocation failure - saga continues :( message 1 of 20)
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 11:32:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42807FC6.10400@spamgourmet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42806EA0.2070501@yahoo.com.au>

Nick Piggin - nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au wrote:

> linuxkernel2.20.sandos@spamgourmet.com wrote:
>
>>  >Anyway i'll try to catch THE option that make the kernel not so happy
>>  >under heavy stress. Stay tuned
>>
>> How did this turn out? Any luck? Im seeing this same problem with my 
>> e1000, now I did enable rx/tx flow control, I reniced kswapd and I 
>> changed vm.min_free_kbytes to 65536, and the problem went away.
>>
>> It would be nice with a "cleaner" solution though.
>>
>
> What kernel are you using?
> Are you doing a lot of block IO as well?

I am using 2.6.11.8.

Yes, the server is a fileserver for both the internet (~10Mbit) and 
internally (1Gbit e1000). Hardware is pretty old so is pretty heavily 
loaded and with 256MB RAM.

---
John Bäckstrand

  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-10  9:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-10  8:06 E1000 - page allocation failure - saga continues :( linuxkernel2.20.sandos
2005-05-10  8:19 ` Nick Piggin
2005-05-10  9:32   ` linuxkernel2.20.sandos@spamgourmet.com [this message]
2005-05-10  9:44     ` E1000 - page allocation failure - saga continues :( message 1 of 20) Nick Piggin

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