On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 04:55:11PM +0100, Marc Espie wrote: > Nevertheless, things ought to work slightly better. > I still consider network driver failing due to swap to be > a bug in the driver. It should lock down memory if it's > necessary. Or there is something in the bufcache swap routines > or some disk driver that locks other users for inordinately long periods, > especially wrt interrupts. > > A machine that doesn't run out of swap should work. Not be very responsive, > that's fine. Having a network driver that downright FAILS because of that is > a bug.
I think it's definitely the driver in this case. After posting I saw the firmware-crapping-out messages on the console. --
