Re: E1000 - page allocation failure - saga continues :(message 1 of 20)

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Nick Piggin - nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> linuxkernel2.20.sandos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> >  >Anyway i'll try to catch THE option that make the kernel not so happy
> >  >under heavy stress. Stay tuned
> >
> > How did this turn out? Any luck? Im seeing this same problem with my 
> > e1000, now I did enable rx/tx flow control, I reniced kswapd and I 
> > changed vm.min_free_kbytes to 65536, and the problem went away.
> >
> > It would be nice with a "cleaner" solution though.
>
> What kernel are you using?
> Are you doing a lot of block IO as well?

I am using 2.6.11.8.

Yes, the server is a fileserver for both the internet (~10Mbit) and 
internally (1Gbit e1000). Hardware is pretty old so is pretty heavily 
loaded and with 256MB RAM.

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John Bäckstrand
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