Re: TOO MUCH WORK...

On Sun, 20 Apr 2003, Homer Wilson Smith wrote:

>     How do I measure how many network buffers are available
> and in use.  This problem is becoming chronic.

It's very likely that your problem isn't with the network side at all,
rather it's with some other device in your system.

>     Only pushing about 1.5 megabits/sec through two 10 meg ether
> cards, Linux 2.0.38.  Getting too much work during an interrupt
> even when nothing else is going on, on the machine.

Are you certain that nothing else is going on?
Do you have a SCSI controller?

> > >      During nightly 'maintenance' runs involving disk copying and
> > > other jobs, we get this error message.

Try
   echo 500 1000 2000 > /proc/sys/vm/freepages

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