Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Jan 2000 18:45:41 +0300 | From | Savochkin Andrey Vladimirovich <> | Subject | Re: HELP! Intel Etherexpress problems |
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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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