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Re: Network oops

To: Donald Becker <becker@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Network oops
From: "Mala Anand" <manand@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 11:58:30 -0500
Cc: linux-net@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-net-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx, pekkas@xxxxxxxxxx
Sender: owner-netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
>> 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.
--

Regards,
    Mala


   Mala Anand
   E-mail:manand@xxxxxxxxxx
   Linux Technology Center - Performance
   Phone:838-8088; Tie-line:678-8088




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