Re: 2.6.9 page allocation failure

[jhigdon]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 08:39:13AM -0500, Piszcz, Justin Michael wrote:
> This is a known problem with the Intel Gigabit NIC and possibly other
> NIC's dealing with TSO (tcp segmentation offload).
> 
> Either try turning it off (with ethtool) or wait until 2.6.10 is
> released or try the latest -mm tree as Andrew Morton is working on
> fixing this issue.
> 
> This problem began with 2.6.9 and has been reported on the list quite a
> few times now :)
> 
> 

Seeing it with Broadcom gigabit too BCM5704. I am trying .10-rc2 and
havent seen any problems yet, but with min_free_kbytes set to 8192
instead of the previous default this problem took 3-5 days to show
itself, hopefully that wont be the case with this kernel.


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