Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 18 Apr 2005 14:34:57 +0200 | From | Lukas Hejtmanek <> | Subject | Re: E1000 - page allocation failure - saga continues :( |
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On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 02:24:47PM +0200, Yann Dupont wrote: > >I know that kernel 2.6.6-bk4 works. So were there some memory manager changes > >since 2.6.6? If so it looks like there are some bugs. > >On the other hand, ethernet driver should not allocate much memory but rather > >drop packets. > > > >Btw, are you using some TCP tweaks? E.g. I have default TCP window size 1MB. > > > No tweaking at all. No jumbo frames.
There were assumptions that it is XFS related. Are you using XFS on that box?
I'm able to deterministically produce this error: on XFS partition store a file from network using multiple threads. If file size is bigger then total memory, then it fails after major part of memory is used for a file cache.
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