Bryan Opfer wrote:
> I posted the message below a few weeks ago and nobody replied, so I
> thought I would try again. Seems to me like no one has seen this error.
> Anyone know what would cause it? Could it have something to do with the
> UDP brodcasts that people have been sending out to crash NT machines??
> ...
> > I got the following error yesterday:
> >
> > eth0: coundn't allocate a sk_buf of size 60
> >
> > It froze the machine and it just kept scrolling up the screen. Does
> > anyone know what would cause this to happen??
Don't know which version you're using; I'm on RedHat 5.0. The chain of
investigation is shown below, if you want to go look. But the short answer
is
The code fails when it can't allocate a buffer from free memory; thus,
anything that would exhaust your memory buffer pool would cause this.
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A brief look at the source code shows that this results in all drivers from
a call to the routine 'dev_alloc_skb' (net/core/skbuff.c), which in turn
calls 'alloc_skb' in the same file; which finally calls 'kmalloc'.
(mm/kmalloc.c)
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Dave Ihnat
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