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kernel: IP: create: no memory left !

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Sun Apr 21 00:27:55 1996

Date: 	Sun, 21 Apr 1996 00:23:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
To: Linux Net Mailing List <linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu>

On a system running 1.2.13 and an IRC server on a small IRC netwrok, I 
just got a bunch of errors today:

Apr 20 15:22:33 irc kernel:  no memory left !
Apr 20 15:22:34 irc kernel: IP: create: no memory left !
Apr 20 15:22:34 irc last message repeated 16 times
Apr 20 15:22:37 irc in.rlogind[4902]: connect from yoda.fdt.net
Apr 20 15:22:34 irc kernel: IP: create: no memory left !
Apr 20 15:22:34 irc last message repeated 25 times
Apr 20 15:22:34 irc kernel: eth0: Couldn't allocate a sk_buff of size 1514
Apr 20 15:22:34 irc kernel: eth0: Couldn't allocate a sk_buff of size 1514.
Apr 20 15:22:34 irc last message repeated 12 times

followed by several screens of

Apr 20 15:30:19 irc kernel: IP: queue_glue: no memory for gluing queue 
0x945CD8
Apr 20 15:30:19 irc kernel: IP: queue_glue: no memory for gluing queue 
0x50C2D8
Apr 20 15:30:19 irc kernel: IP: queue_glue: no memory for gluing queue 
0x50C218
Apr 20 15:30:19 irc kernel: IP: queue_glue: no memory for gluing queue 
0x50C898
Apr 20 15:30:19 irc kernel: IP: queue_glue: no memory for gluing queue 
0xEE4758

a few 

Apr 20 15:30:20 irc kernel: Couldn't get a free page.....

Shortly after which everything went back to normal.  Could this have been 
the result of some kind of luser's IRC attack?

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