Re: mm or tlan: Couldn't allocate memory for received data.

From: Mike Galbraith (mikeg@weiden.de)
Date: Thu Feb 17 2000 - 01:37:54 EST


On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Jorgen Skjaanes wrote:

> I'm seeing the above quite regularly in all the latest 2.3.x
> kernels. I'm not sure if it's an mm bug or just a bug in the
> tlan driver. I can pretty much look at the slabinfo and predict
> if the driver soon will start complaining. And when it does the
> system is either freezing for a period, or responding with
> 'bash: fork: Cannot allocate memory' to every command, or still
> work fine. Mostly all of the above in turn.
> The network can be almost idle when it happens.

...

> skbuff_head_cache 19462 19475 156

almost idle.. hmm, I wonder what netstat says.

> If there's any thing I can do to figure it out, apply debug-patches,
> give more details or whatever then please tell me.

If you'd like, I can extract ikd (large) and send it so you can try
memleak. It can give you allocation when/where data.

        -Mike

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