Subject: Re: Network oops

From: Donald Becker <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 21:35:23 -0400 (EDT)

On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Mala Anand wrote:

>  I have see 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.

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.

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