Getting errors on eth0 NIC

[Jorge Cocomess]

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

[Ivan Ferreira · Accepted solution]

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.

[Steven E. Protter]

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

[Jorge Cocomess]

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

[Ivan Ferreira]

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.