Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: PROBLEM: Losing network connectivity with 2.2.10 | Date | Sat, 19 Jun 1999 11:52:21 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> > > Jun 17 15:43:01 linux270 kernel: eth0: Insufficient memory; nuking packet. > > > Jun 17 15:43:32 linux270 last message repeated 1496 times > > > Jun 17 15:43:39 linux270 last message repeated 329 times > > > > Interesting, we saw those once. Networking remained active afterwards > > though - that's the important thing :-) > > > > Did networking survive for you too? > > Sure did--I wonder if the "Insufficient memory" errors could be fixed by > increasing the number of Rx buffers?
Insufficient memory is reported when there is no memory available in the whole machine for atomic allocation. Linux doesn't do anything quite so crude as preallocated areas of memory for network buffers.
Alan
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