Are there any resource limitations when using multiple 10Gbit Ethernet adapters with 32bit installations?

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Issue

After installing 10Gbit ethernet controllers, e.g. Intel 82599, in a system, the 32bit kernel panics during boot with OOM messages similar to:

Kernel panic - not syncing: Out of memory and no killable processes...

 Pid: 234, comm: kacpid Not tainted 2.6.32-131.0.15.el6.i686 #1
 Call Trace:
 [<c0821fde>] ? panic+0x42/0xf9
 [<c04dfeea>] ? __out_of_memory+0x8a/0x90
 [<c04dff45>] ? out_of_memory+0x55/0xb0

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 32bit
  • One or more 10Gbit Network Adapters

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