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    SubjectRe: New thread: page allocation failure with E1000 (seems to be reproducible)
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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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