But...
I haven't seen the problem before 2.2.19. Going back to 2.2.16 solved it
On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Well, it shouldn't hang - it should just fail to do anything for a while
> and then recover.
>
> You can reserve more memory for the network driver by altering
> the contents of /proc/sys/vm/freepages. Try doubling everything
> in there.
>
>
>
> Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I have a 3c900 card in a server, and after upgrading to 2.2.19 it started
> > hanging every now and then, giving me the error message "kernel: eth0:
> > memory shortage". The card is this (as reported during boot)
> >
> > 3c59x.c:v0.99H 27May00 Donald Becker
> > http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
> > eth0: 3Com 3c900 Boomerang 10Mbps Combo at 0xa800, 00:a0:24:ef:ef:50, IRQ 5
> > 8K word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:Tx split, 10baseT interface.
> > Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
> >
> > Please cc: to me (roy@karlsbakk.net) and Jannik (jannik@east.no), as we're
> > not on the list.
> >
> > Best regards
> >
> > roy
> >
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