eepro100 failure at boot: no resources

[Scott M. Stone]

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
> 
> 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?

You don't have any swap.  Was this intentional, or are you perhaps running
TurboLinux version 6 (known bug in that version)...?

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

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