[vortex] eth0: Too much work in interrupt, ...

[Hamid Reza Shahriari]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> bix:/home/morton> cat /proc/sys/vm/freepages
> 256     512     768
> 
> So on this machine the memory allocation system will always reserve 256
> memory pages (that's 1 meg) for use by low-level things like your
> network driver.
> 
> Try
> 
>         echo "512 1024 1536" > /proc/sys/vm/freepages
> 
> to double the amount of memory which is reserved for the driver.
> 
> The fact that your system dies with both the 2.2.14 driver and with
> Donald's v0.99Qk makes me suspect that the driver may not be the cause.


Dear Andrew,
  Doubling freepages content solved the
problem. It was excelent and nice! 

Very Thanks
--Hamid