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DateTue, 10 May 2005 11:32:54 +0200
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SubjectRe: E1000 - page allocation failure - saga continues :( message 1 of 20)
Nick Piggin - nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au wrote:

> linuxkernel2.20.sandos@spamgourmet.com wrote:
>
>>  >Anyway i'll try to catch THE option that make the kernel not so happy
>>  >under heavy stress. Stay tuned
>>
>> How did this turn out? Any luck? Im seeing this same problem with my 
>> e1000, now I did enable rx/tx flow control, I reniced kswapd and I 
>> changed vm.min_free_kbytes to 65536, and the problem went away.
>>
>> It would be nice with a "cleaner" solution though.
>>
>
> What kernel are you using?
> Are you doing a lot of block IO as well?

I am using 2.6.11.8.

Yes, the server is a fileserver for both the internet (~10Mbit) and 
internally (1Gbit e1000). Hardware is pretty old so is pretty heavily 
loaded and with 256MB RAM.

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John Bäckstrand
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