From: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
To: netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: sis900: eth0: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 11:21:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050118102139.GA9507@xi.wantstofly.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050118101358.GA9335@xi.wantstofly.org>
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 11:13:58AM +0100, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
> I can make one of my machines, which has an on-board sis900 NIC, lose
> network connectivity within seconds by doing something like
> "nc -l -p 6666 > /dev/null" and then blasting some data towards it. When
> this happens, syslog fills up with these messages:
>
> eth0: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping
Just before it starts spewing these it says:
eth0: Memory squeeze,deferring packet.
So apparently it just doesn't deal with OOM very well.
--L
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-18 10:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-18 10:13 sis900: eth0: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping Lennert Buytenhek
2005-01-18 10:21 ` Lennert Buytenhek [this message]
2005-01-19 20:52 ` Eric Lemoine
2005-01-19 21:49 ` Francois Romieu
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