eepro100 failure at boot: no resources

Andrey Savochkin saw@saw.sw.com.sg
Thu Apr 27 04:33:09 2000


Hello,

On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 03:56:12PM -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> About 50% of the time at boot on of my eepro100 interfaces fails with the
> following two messages being repeated over and over, effectively kiiling the
> system:
> 
> eth2: card reports no resources.
> eth2: card reports no RX buffers.
> 
> I'm going to take a stab at the cause of the problem and say it's because of
> the large about of broadcast traffic on that particular network.  I'm seen
> similar problems with Intel nics under UnixWare7.

I doubt that the real traffic burst problem may affect you just from the boot
time when a lot of free memory is available.
However, you may try to type `free' to show you free memory.
If you see the amount of free memory of order of 1MB, increase your
/proc/sys/vm/freepages numbers.

Best regards
					Andrey V.
					Savochkin
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