eepro100 failure at boot: no resources

[Scott M. Stone]

On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Orion Poplawski wrote:

> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Scott M. Stone [mailto:sstone@taos.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 12:32 PM
> > To: Orion Poplawski
> > Cc: Andrey Savochkin; linux-eepro100@beowulf.org
> > Subject: RE: eepro100 failure at boot: no resources
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> >
> > > 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
> > >
> > You don't have any swap.  Was this intentional, or are you perhaps running
> > TurboLinux version 6 (known bug in that version)...?
> >
> It's an LRP-based box.  Very minimal system.

Thou Shalt NOT run a UNIX machine without swap.  ever.  it's a VERY VERY
bad idea.  you get one runaway process and BOOM down you go...

Even just 32 meg or 64 meg of swap would be sufficient, I would think.

Also, considering that you're getting a 'no resources' error....

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Scott M. Stone, CCNA <sstone@taos.com>
UNIX Systems and Network Engineer
Taos - The SysAdmin Company 

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