Re: eth0: Memory squeeze, deferring packet

2001-10-07 Thread Russell Coker
On Sun, 7 Oct 2001 06:13, Jason Lim wrote: > Well... I doubt the it is (1) because the system was NOT under great load, > and doesn't have software RAID, and only uses one 100baseT realtek card. > > SO... i guess it is (2). Kernel is 2.2.19... i thought it would be pretty > much stable by now?! da

Re: eth0: Memory squeeze, deferring packet

2001-10-06 Thread Jason Lim
y are safe enough for production use? Any huge performance increase? Sincerely, Jason - Original Message - From: "Russell Coker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jason Lim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2001 7:35 AM S

Re: eth0: Memory squeeze, deferring packet

2001-10-06 Thread Russell Coker
On Sun, 7 Oct 2001 02:41, Jason Lim wrote: > Strange... but wha could be causing it? The box has 512M ram and has > almost 20M free... it is that empty and free. > > Plus there is no huge amount of traffic going through it. > > I'm just trying to figure out what triggered this :-/ These types of

Re: eth0: Memory squeeze, deferring packet

2001-10-06 Thread Jason Lim
ginal Message - From: "Russell Coker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jason Lim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2001 2:06 AM Subject: Re: eth0: Memory squeeze, deferring packet > On Sat, 6 Oct 2001 19:12, Jason Lim wrote

Re: eth0: Memory squeeze, deferring packet

2001-10-06 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 6 Oct 2001 19:12, Jason Lim wrote: > Memory squeeze, deferring packet The dev_alloc_skb() function in the kernel is failing due to lack of memory. Presumably if you change /proc/sys/vm/freepages to have some larger numbers it will stop this happening. -- http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie

eth0: Memory squeeze, deferring packet

2001-10-06 Thread Jason Lim
Hi! Do you'all know what this means: "eth0: Memory squeeze, deferring packet"? We get that one one of our boxes every so often, and it is annoying because then it loses all connectivity to the net, and has to be physically rebooted. eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xe800

kernel: eth0: Memory squeeze, deferring packet.

2001-09-27 Thread Jason Lim
Hi all, On a 2.2.19 kernel box, this happened: 21:30:12 alpha -- MARK -- 21:50:11 alpha -- MARK -- 22:02:05 alpha kernel: eth0: Memory squeeze, deferring packet. 22:02:05 alpha last message repeated 46 times 22:02:17 alpha netsaint: Warning: fork() in my_system() failed for command "/us