Re: eth0: Memory squeeze, deferring packet

To: "Jason Lim" <maillist@jasonlim.com>, <debian-isp@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: eth0: Memory squeeze, deferring packet
From: Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>
Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 20:06:13 +0200
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On Sat, 6 Oct 2001 19:12, Jason Lim wrote:
> Memory squeeze, deferring packet

The dev_alloc_skb() function in the kernel is failing due to lack of memory.

Presumably if you change /proc/sys/vm/freepages to have some larger numbers 
it will stop this happening.

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