From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Donald Becker Subject: Re: Network oops Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 21:35:23 -0400 (EDT) Sender: owner-netdev@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: , , , Return-path: To: Mala Anand In-Reply-To: List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Mala Anand wrote: > I have see this problem with this NIC. You need to increase > the number of buffers in the RX and TX ring in eepro100.c file. > Right now it is set to 32, change it to 256 or 128 this error > will go away. Changing the Tx queue size or number of Rx skbuffs waiting to be filled will not fix a problem. It might mask some problem e.g. a temporary shortage of skbuffs, but it doesn't fix anything. -- Donald Becker becker@scyld.com Scyld Computing Corporation http://www.scyld.com 410 Severn Ave. Suite 210 Second Generation Beowulf Clusters Annapolis MD 21403 410-990-9993