Interesting machine lockup with 8139too driver.
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I was beating my machine with 8139 NICs (and a slow CPU and only 128MB RAM) by running a lot of UDP and TCP connections through it... I usually set my socket buffers quite large, so they may be consuming too much of the vital kernel RAM.
After a while, I saw this repeated over and over on the console:
eth[01]: Memory squeeze, dropping packet.
Now, that is the only thing I can see on this machine. I cannot get a bash prompt and changing virtual terminals does not work.
I did not see the OOM handler kick in, though it's possible it scrolled off the screen. At the least, it may be worthwhile to throttle the squeeze messages...
As a caveat: I'm running some of my own hacked up networking code, and it's possible its leaking memory or doing something else bad. I have not seen this problem on my other machine with different NIC (and faster CPU and more RAM), though.
Take it easy,
Ben
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