On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Mala Anand wrote: > >> On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Mala Anand wrote: > > >> I have seen this problem with this NIC. You need to increase > >> the number of buffers in the RX and TX ring in eepro100.c file. > >> Right now it is set to 32, change it to 256 or 128 this error > >> will go away. > > > Donald Becker wrote: > >Changing the Tx queue size or number of Rx skbuffs waiting to be filled > >will not fix a problem. It might mask some problem e.g. a temporary > >shortage of skbuffs, but it doesn't fix anything. > > The problem what I saw was resource problem and as a result I had packet > drops. The > input rate was high and the driver didn't have enough resources to handle. > It was a pure resource problem. > -- I think the problem Donald Becker is referring to is the fact that it oopses when out of resources, (or whatever), and that is not a graceful and acceptable thing. Adding resources pushes the problem to a point under additional stress/load/consumption. It would be nice if that were handled gracefully. thanks, Nivedita - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
