Bug#611622: linux-image-2.6.32-bpo.5-686: VM problems

[Anton Ivanov <arivanov@sigsegv.cx>]

Hi Ben,

You were correct.

It is offload and it is X and/or pulse which is throwing enough TCP at
the system to trigger the memory allocation failures.

You can close the bug now.

Turning off all offloads except checksumming looks like a valid
workaround. I have had the system running for a while. The memory
allocation failures should have shown up by now.

It may be worth it to have an init script as a part of the ethtool
package which sets offloads and defaults to turning off segmentation
offloads at if there is no swap. I will be happy to write it, if you and
the ethtool maintainer think it is a good idea.

Brgds,

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