Benjamin LaHaise schrieb: > On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 03:48:39PM +0200, Arnd Hannemann wrote: >> However the box is a VIA Epia MII12000 with 1 GB of Ram and 1 GB of swap >> enabled, so there should be plenty of memory available. HIGHMEM support >> is off. The e1000 nic seems to be an 82540EM, which to my knowledge >> should support jumboframes. > >> However I can't always reproduce this on a freshly booted system, so >> someone else may be the culprit and leaking pages? >> >> Any ideas how to debug this? > > This is memory fragmentation, and all you can do is work around it until > the e1000 driver is changed to split jumbo frames up on rx. Here are a > few ideas that should improve things for you: > > - switch to a 2GB/2GB split to recover the memory lost to highmem > (see Processor Type and Features / Memory split) > - increase /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes -- more free memory will > improve the odds that enough unfragmented memory is available for > incoming network packets > > I hope this helps.
:-) Yes it did. I increased /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes to 65000 and now it works. Thank you! > > -ben Best regards, Arnd Hannemann - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
