Re: Eepro 100 issues

From: Wayne Pascoe (wayne@moneyworld.co.uk)
Date: Fri Jan 21 2000 - 07:48:36 EST


I'm not sure if I've gone about it right, but I've echoed the following
line into /proc/sys/vm/freepages

echo "512 1024 1536" > /proc/sys/vm/freepages

Is this right?

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On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Savochkin Andrey Vladimirovich wrote:

> Hello, > > On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 06:24:04PM +0000, wayne@moneyworld.co.uk wrote: > > I am one of the people having problems with the eepro 100... Here is my > > output at dmesg time... > > > [snip] > > > > This continues ad infinitum.... I tried the patched driver in 2.2.15pre3 > > and that gave a different error. IT said out of memory... > > Well, it looks as if the driver didn't lie :-) > Have you managed to raise the freepage parameters? > It's an essential measure for high loaded servers where both applications and > network rapidly consume the memory. > > Regards > Andrey V. > Savochkin >

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