From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Lukas Hejtmanek <xhejtman@mail.muni.cz>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.9 - e1000 - page allocation failed
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 22:45:10 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <417900D6.4030902@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041022120821.GA12619@mail.muni.cz>
Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 02:51:58AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
>>I'd be interested in knowing if this fixes it - I don't expect it will,
>>because that's a zero-order allocation failure. He's really out of memory.
>>
>>The e1000 driver has a default rx ring size of 256 which seems a bit nutty:
>>a back-to-back GFP_ATOMIC allocation of 256 skbs could easily exhaust the
>>page allocator pools.
>>
>>Probably this machine needs to increase /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes.
>
>
> It did not help.
>
What did you increase it to? What was the allocation failure message?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-22 12:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-21 22:16 Lukas Hejtmanek
2004-10-21 22:58 ` Francois Romieu
2004-10-22 9:51 ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-22 12:08 ` Lukas Hejtmanek
2004-10-22 12:45 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2004-12-03 18:37 ` Lukas Hejtmanek
2004-11-03 13:22 ` Lukas Hejtmanek
2004-11-03 14:10 ` Lukas Hejtmanek
2004-10-22 10:55 Piszcz, Justin Michael
2004-10-22 19:35 ` Francois Romieu
2004-10-22 11:16 Piszcz, Justin Michael
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