Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 16 Jul 1996 23:43:34 +0200 | From | Cees de Groot <> | Subject | Re: Couldn't allocate an sk_buff (2.0.4) |
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In article <4sgj5q$5eq@bofh.cdg.openlinksw.com> you write: > >> network I/O (ftp over local LAN). I really doubt I ran out of swap though. >> Perhaps the system couldn't swap fast enough? > >Bang on. The kernel tries to keep a pool of pages free for allocation during >an interrupt. It can't swap during an interrupt. A few like that are harmless, >the machine just dropped about 10 packets from your trace. Those drops as >part of the TCP protocol cause the other end to slow sending to what you can >take without drops > But they are occuring very often ever since (I think) 1.3.xx. And I haven't downgraded memory in the meantime :-). Could it be that the free pool is kept too low and we need other default swapping parameters?
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