[eepro100] eth0: can't fill rx buffer (force 0)! and (force 1) as sertion failed

[Bell, Leslie]

Hello: I am new to this mailing list and hope that my mail will get noticed.

I had a machine crash twice yesterday. It was like this:

Mar 24 07:22:52 serlinux02 kernel: Linux version 2.4.17-PENTIUMII-SMP-2 (root@serlinux04.ess
ex.ac.uk) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #63 SMP Thu Feb 14 
12:50:00 GMT 2002

Mar 24 07:23:00 serlinux02 kernel: eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker http://cesdis.g
sfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/eepro100.html
Mar 24 07:23:00 serlinux02 kernel: eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.36 $ 2000/11/17 Modified by Andr
ey V. Savochkin <saw@saw.sw.com.sg> and others

Mar 25 12:42:07 serlinux02 kernel: eth0: can't fill rx buffer (force 0)!
Mar 25 12:42:08 serlinux02 kernel: eth0: can't fill rx buffer (force 0)!
Mar 25 12:42:08 serlinux02 kernel: eth0: can't fill rx buffer (force 1)!
Mar 25 12:42:08 serlinux02 last message repeated 5 times
Mar 25 12:42:08 serlinux02 kernel: eth0: can't fill rx buffer (force 0)!
Mar 25 12:42:09 serlinux02 kernel: KERNEL: assertion (flags&MSG_PEEK) failed at 
tcp.c(1463):tcp_recvmsg
Mar 25 12:42:09 serlinux02 kernel: recvmsg bug: copied 54AB7A89 seq 54AB8031
Mar 25 12:42:09 serlinux02 kernel: KERNEL: assertion (flags&MSG_PEEK) failed at 
tcp.c(1463):tcp_recvmsg

Mar 25 12:48:05 serlinux02 squid[714]: TCP connection to wwwcache1.essex.ac.uk/8
080 failed ( this message appears in a number of places)

Mar 25 12:48:25 serlinux02 ntpd[560]: synchronisation lost

Mar 25 12:59:35 serlinux02 kernel: eth0: card reports no resources.
Mar 25 12:59:40 serlinux02 last message repeated 64 times

some messages like the above reported last message repeated over 3000 times.

Is this a memory problem? We doubled the memory in this computer to 771232 K a few days before the crash.
Following a newsgroup message, I thought of tweaking /proc/sys/vm/freepages but the file does not exist.
The computer has scsi disks.


Leslie Bell, Systems Programmer, Web Support Unit
University of Essex, Colchester CO4 3SQ U.K.
E-mail: mailto:lbell@essex.ac.uk. Tel:+44 (0)1206 873628.  
web authors url: http://www2.essex.ac.uk/wag
web support unit url: http://www2.essex.ac.uk/wag/wsu