Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:03:27 +1200 | From | "Keith Chew" <> | Subject | oom on wireless network saturation |
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Hi
We are stress testing the wireless network driver on our linux system. We use ping flood to saturate the network, and within 24 hours, we managed to crash the driver.
This was a good test, as it hightlighted a timer problem in the driver. After fixing that, we are now getting out of memory errors. The OOM killer starts to kick in and the system freezes.
Can someone advise at a high level, what should the network driver do in such a scenario? Essentially, the wireless packets get queued up in the driver and eventually it just breaks. What is the correct way to handle this gracefully?
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