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Getting errors on eth0 NIC

Jorge Cocomess — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 14:33:36 GMT

Hello Linux Gods!

I'm seeing some 52 errors on eth0 NIC when I displayed ifconfig. It also showed 52 dropped and no frame errors.

Any ideas??

Thanks,
J

Re: Getting errors on eth0 NIC

Ivan Ferreira — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 15:01:29 GMT

Do you see input errors, output errors, or both?

52 packets with errors are very log, you should worry if your output errors are >= 2% output packets.

Re: Getting errors on eth0 NIC

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 15:05:33 GMT

Shalom Jorge,

This could be anything, including network issues between this NIC and any other NIC card its communicating with.

Could be the wire.
Could be the switch.
Could be the Internet.
Could be sunspots.

SEP

Re: Getting errors on eth0 NIC

Jorge Cocomess — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 07:09:43 GMT

This does not have anything to with the amount amount of memory left on the server, does it? We had a total of 32GB and the Oracle DB used about 30GB of the 32GB available. The reason I threw this out there because my co-worker claimed that is why we're getting these errors due to lack of memory. I really don;t think this is the case though. Any thoughts?

Thanks,
J

Re: Getting errors on eth0 NIC

Ivan Ferreira — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 09:17:26 GMT

Linux will always use the maximum ammount of memory possible. If not used by applications, will be used by buffers/cache. Use the free command to view the available memory without buffers/cache.