From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lennert Buytenhek Subject: Re: sis900: eth0: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 11:21:39 +0100 Message-ID: <20050118102139.GA9507@xi.wantstofly.org> References: <20050118101358.GA9335@xi.wantstofly.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: To: netdev@oss.sgi.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050118101358.GA9335@xi.wantstofly.org> Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.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