page allocation failure

[C M Reinehr]

On Saturday 10 February 2007 13:23, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> On Friday 09 February 2007 14:21, C M Reinehr wrote:
> > On Friday 09 February 2007 13:01, Net Llama! wrote:
> > > Actually, you should google on this a bit, as it looks like it might
> > > now be as simple as an OOM condition but some kind of driver buffer
> > > overflow, where it needs to store something in memory somewhere  and
> > > doesn't have enough room.  One report that I read was discussing
> > > someone using jumbo frames with a weird MTU.
> > >
> > > At anyrate, I don't think this is a HW problem.
> >
> > Hmmm... It probably would have been easier to plug in a new stick of RAM.
> > Oh well. I think I'll start by installing a new kernel. I've been so busy
> > the past few months that I've fallen behind. 2.6.18-7 is the latest
> > Debian/Etch kernel source and I'm still at 2.6.17-9. I'll also Google for
> > it, as you suggest.
>
> Of course, it doesn't hurt to replace the memory, especially if you
> increase it, so long as you can use the memory somewhere else if not
> necessary here... or you can take it back.
>
> Sometimes I find that it's best to change things up in a controlled
> fashion. Figure out what fixes it (if anything).  If nothing else, you get
> an idea for what it is *not*.  And memory is cheap these days.

I may try that, if the new kernel I loaded yesterday doesn't fix this. At the 
time, 1Gb seemed like plenty but now I have 2Gb in my PC! :-)

cmr

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