Hi Jesse, > the memory allocation (order:0), while unexpected, are not fatal, and > the e1000 driver is written to handle the failures during allocation. > > Does something else happen to the system after this or does operation > continue?
I can not be sure, but I _think_ some bogus data made it into userspace. I did have some binary in a text string I received & logged, which is a tad unusual. > You might be able to try the sysctl tweak to reserve a little more > memory for driver allocations. > # sysctl vm.min_free_kbytes > # sysctl -e vm.min_free_kbytes=<double what you have> I will try that, thanks. > have you increased the number of rx/tx descriptors in use by e1000? No. Should I? Thanks, Richard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list E1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel To learn more about Intel® Ethernet, visit http://communities.intel.com/community/wired
