linux-kernel - Re: New thread: page allocation failure with E1000 (seems to be reproducible)

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Message-ID: <2d460de71003080914l723b9f9by10b7f503cfb7a0a2@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 8 Mar 2010 18:14:57 +0100
From:	Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@...il.com>
To:	Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...il.com>
Cc:	e1000-devel@...ts.sf.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Pochinsky <avp@....edu>
Subject: Re: New thread: page allocation failure with E1000 (seems to be 
	reproducible)

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 18:34, Richard Hartmann
<richih.mailinglist@...il.com> wrote:

>> You might be able to try the sysctl tweak to reserve a little more
>> memory for driver allocations.
>> # sysctl vm.min_free_kbytes
>> # sysctl -e vm.min_free_kbytes=<double what you have>
>
> I will try that, thanks.

It was

host:~# sysctl vm.min_free_kbytes
vm.min_free_kbytes = 16174
host:~#

btw.


Richard
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