Re: Problem with 3c509 and pre-2.0.31 kernel

Jon Lewis (jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net)
Tue, 15 Jul 1997 13:55:09 -0400 (EDT)


On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, Nigel Metheringham wrote:

> I have seen a number of these errors on machines with 3c509 ethercards
> running kernels later than 2.0.29.
>
> Eth1 couldn't allocate a sk_buff of size 60
> Problem block on free list 0001dcdc isn't free
>
> Replacing the cards with tulip based ones seems to help, but is
> logistically a problem :-)

The first one sounds like memory might have been tight. Not sure about
the second. How much free memory is there?

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