eepro100 failure at boot: no resources

[Orion Poplawski]

I have plenty of free memory:

              total         used         free       shared      buffers
  Mem:        47152        19260        27892         4424        11332
 Swap:            0            0            0
Total:        47152        19260        27892

This is taken from one of the successful boots.  I really can't do anything
on the machines when it fails.

Besides, aren't these resources on the card it's complaining about, not the
OS?

- Orion

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrey Savochkin [mailto:saw@saw.sw.com.sg]
> Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 2:33 AM
> To: Orion Poplawski; linux-eepro100@beowulf.org
> Subject: Re: eepro100 failure at boot: no resources
>
>
> 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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