Re: decnet versions

["Zane H. Healy" <healyzh@aracnet.com>]

>Thanks for the crash dump & analysis.
>My best guess is that its down to a shortage of memory... I wonder how much
>free memory there was at the time ? I've noticed that there appears to be

I'd hardly done anything besides booting it, and hadn't even started
X-Windows.  The Linux box has 224MB of RAM, is a single user box, and
basically never hits the swap partition.

>no checks against alloc_skb(size, GFP_ATOMIC) returning NULL which it will
>almost certainly do at some stage unless the box is very lightly loaded.
>Perhaps there might be alot of other net traffic which may be using up the
>atomicly allocatable memory.

I wouldn't think network traffic is a problem.  It's on my home network, at
the time of the test the only systems on the network were a DEC3000/300LX
(OpenVMS), AlphaStation 200 4/233 (OpenBSD), PDP-11/73 (RSX-11M), PII
(Linux), and G4 (Mac OS).  So even when there isn't anything going on I've
got DECnet, AppleTalk/Ethertalk, and Samba chatter going around but nothing
heavy.  BTW, did I mention that the Linux box also speaks Appletalk via
Netatalk and Samba?

OTOH, Paul Koning probably is right about CTERM being the reason I can't
get the two to log into each other.  I'm currently trying to figure out
what network terminal protocol RSX-11M is using, unfortunatly the set of
PDP-11 DECnet doc's I've got access to right now is for RSTS/E.

				Zane
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