Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Jul 2004 11:26:16 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: SiS900: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping |
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Dominik Karall wrote: > After a few hours my network doesn't work on my laptop. There appear a lot of > those messages: > > eth0: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping > eth0: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping > eth0: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping > eth0: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping > eth0: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping > eth0: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping > eth0: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping > eth0: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping > eth0: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping > eth0: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping > > It works again after restarting network. I'm using 2.6.8-rc2 now. It was the > same problem in 2.6.7, but I didn't test it with earlier kernels.
A NULL appears when the machine is temporarily unable to allocate room for a new skb. Your machine's atomic memory pools are getting too low...
Jeff
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