Re: 2.6.9 - e1000 - page allocation failed

[Nick Piggin]

Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 02:51:58AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > I'd be interested in knowing if this fixes it - I don't expect it will,
> > because that's a zero-order allocation failure.  He's really out of memory.
> >
> > The e1000 driver has a default rx ring size of 256 which seems a bit nutty:
> > a back-to-back GFP_ATOMIC allocation of 256 skbs could easily exhaust the
> > page allocator pools.
> >
> > Probably this machine needs to increase /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes.
>
>
> It did not help.

What did you increase it to? What was the allocation failure message?
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