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SubjectRe: HELP! Intel Etherexpress problems
Hi,

On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 01:26:33PM +0000, Wayne Pascoe wrote:
> Hi there...
>
> We were having problems with an Intel ether express card in a loaded
> server. The card will sometimes die and say
> 'Attempting to restart transmitter'
>
> This was with kernels 2.2.12, 2.2.13 and 2.2.14
>
> I used the patch posted by Savochkin Andrey Vladimirovich against 2.2.14
> and things went well for a day. Now the server has died with the following
> error scrolling on it....
>
> eth0: can't fill rx buffer (force 1)!
> eth0: can't fill rx buffer (force 1)!
> eth0: can't fill rx buffer (force 1)!
> eth0: can't fill rx buffer (force 1)!
> eth0: card reports no resources.
> eth0: can't fill rx buffer (force 1)!
> eth0: can't fill rx buffer (force 1)!
> eth0: can't fill rx buffer (force 1)!

This text describes what happens on your system - the serious lack of free
memory. Are the messages printed continuously or has stop after a time?

>
> Before, we could gain access to the machine through the serial console.
> With this driver and this error, we are unable to get to it even through
> the serial console so we can't remotely reboot the machine.

I'm usually able to log in through the serial console in out-of-memory
situations when the kernel kills enough processes.
Probably in your case the kernel hasn't killed the source of memory
consumption.

In any case you should significantly increase your /proc/sys/vm/freepages
numbers.

Best regards
Andrey V.
Savochkin

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