Re: 3c590

Adam Goryachev (adamg@dot.net.au)
Tue, 10 Dec 1996 18:23:10 +1100

> From: sheldon newhouse <pokie@tcimet.net>
> Subject: Re: 3c590
> Date: Tuesday, December 10, 1996 1:47
> On Tue, 10 Dec 1996, Chris Evans wrote:
> > Is anyone looking into the broken 3c590 ethernet card driver? It seems
> > people on v0.25 and the alleged latest v0.28c-all, get random hangs
after
> > various periods of time.
> I am running a P5-133 with a 3c590, and an ne2000 clone, v, 2.0.25. No
> problems at all.

We are running a PPro 200 with 3 very heavily loaded 3c59x PCI cards in
it...
eth0 Link encap:10Mbps Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:24:BD:C3:67
inet addr:203.17.5.2 Bcast:203.17.5.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:56693675 errors:84 dropped:232 overruns:86
TX packets:20550424 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x6100

eth1 Link encap:10Mbps Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:24:BD:C3:C0
inet addr:203.22.116.1 Bcast:203.22.116.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:10747971 errors:216 dropped:223 overruns:117
TX packets:11174204 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
Interrupt:9 Base address:0x6200

eth2 Link encap:10Mbps Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:24:BD:C3:04
inet addr:203.22.117.1 Bcast:203.22.117.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:100281059 errors:2 dropped:136 overruns:2
TX packets:122679704 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
Interrupt:12 Base address:0x6300

uptime is:
6:21pm up 25 days, 3:53, 7 users, load average: 1.34, 1.28, 1.20

Linux xxxx.yyyyy.zzzz 2.0.24 #1 Sat Nov 2 21:31:57 EST 1996 i686

Couldn't get a free page.....
eth0: Couldn't allocate a sk_buff of size 566.
eth0: Couldn't allocate a sk_buff of size 566.
eth0: Couldn't allocate a sk_buff of size 566.
eth0: Couldn't allocate a sk_buff of size 566.
eth0: Couldn't allocate a sk_buff of size 566.
eth0: Couldn't allocate a sk_buff of size 566.
eth0: Couldn't allocate a sk_buff of size 566.

have been getting the sk_buff message a fair bit (but I noticed from the
source that it was only because it had been compiled with debugging turned
on (as the default it seems)

That actually is the first time I've seen the Couldn't get a free page one
tho...
Think thats cos the proxy server uses up all the available memory plus swap
occasionally but doesn't seem to affect anything.

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