Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 1 Mar 2010 18:34:25 +0100 | Subject | Re: New thread: page allocation failure with E1000 (seems to be reproducible) | From | Richard Hartmann <> |
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Hi Jesse,
> the memory allocation (order:0), while unexpected, are not fatal, and > the e1000 driver is written to handle the failures during allocation. > > Does something else happen to the system after this or does operation continue?
I can not be sure, but I _think_ some bogus data made it into userspace. I did have some binary in a text string I received & logged, which is a tad unusual.
> You might be able to try the sysctl tweak to reserve a little more > memory for driver allocations. > # sysctl vm.min_free_kbytes > # sysctl -e vm.min_free_kbytes=<double what you have>
I will try that, thanks.
> have you increased the number of rx/tx descriptors in use by e1000?
No. Should I?
Thanks, Richard
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