When there is an OOM situation, the macb driver cannot recover from it: [245622.872993] macb 10090000.ethernet eth0: Unable to allocate sk_buff [245622.891438] macb 10090000.ethernet eth0: inconsistent Rx descriptor chain
After that, the interface is dead. Since this system is using NFS root, it then stalled as a whole. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, sch...@suse.de GPG Key fingerprint = 0196 BAD8 1CE9 1970 F4BE 1748 E4D4 88E3 0EEA B9D7 "And now for something completely different."