Re: [SPAM] Re: TOO MUCH WORK...

> >     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?

    Yes.   The problem started to happen more and more.  Thought it
might even be a bad card or connection.  Finally it was happening
every 5 minutes or less.  got desperate and replaced v.95 with v.90
and haven't heard a peep since.

> Do you have a SCSI controller?

    No.

>
> > > >      During nightly 'maintenance' runs involving disk copying and
> > > > other jobs, we get this error message.
>
> Try
>    echo 500 1000 2000 > /proc/sys/vm/freepages

    OK.

>
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