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Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 18:14:57 +0100
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Subject: Re: New thread: page allocation failure with E1000 (seems to be 
	reproducible)
From: Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com>
To: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@gmail.com>
Cc: e1000-devel@lists.sf.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Andrew Pochinsky <avp@mit.edu>
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On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 18:34, Richard Hartmann
<richih.mailinglist@gmail.com> wrote:

>> 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.

It was

host:~# sysctl vm.min_free_kbytes
vm.min_free_kbytes = 16174
host:~#

btw.


Richard