From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261596AbVEJJdB (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 May 2005 05:33:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261598AbVEJJdB (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 May 2005 05:33:01 -0400 Received: from gourmet.spamgourmet.com ([216.218.230.146]:19870 "EHLO gourmet.spamgourmet.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261596AbVEJJc7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 May 2005 05:32:59 -0400 Message-ID: <42807FC6.10400@spamgourmet.com> Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 11:32:54 +0200 From: "linuxkernel2.20.sandos@spamgourmet.com" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 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) References: <42806B78.2020708@home.se> <42806EA0.2070501@yahoo.com.au> In-Reply-To: <42806EA0.2070501@yahoo.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-mdh_se-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-mdh_se-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: majsetvger.100.sandos@spamgourmet.com X-Spamgourmet: X-Spamgourmet: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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