On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 10:26 AM, Sven Hartge <s...@svenhartge.de> wrote:
> Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeova...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > kernel: TCP: ens192: Driver has suspect GRO implementation, TCP > > performance may be compromised > > As long as you use at lease ESXi 6.5u1 there will be no problem. If you > are on pre-6.5u1, your Stretch VMs will freeze/crash after a short amount > of > traffic because of a bug in those earlier ESXi releases. > Thanks Sven, I later ran across the bugzilla. Unfortunately we are at ESXi 5.5 for at least the rest of the year, so that route is closed for now. Have you tried the "ethtool WXYZ -G rx-mini 0" workaround? I receive messages: rx-mini unmodified, ignoring no ring parameters changed, aborting However ethtool reports that rx-mini is already 0: root@saltlab05:~# ethtool -g ens192 Ring parameters for ens192: Pre-set maximums: RX: 4096 RX Mini: 0 RX Jumbo: 4096 TX: 4096 Current hardware settings: RX: 256 RX Mini: 0 RX Jumbo: 128 TX: 512 Have you tried the vmx file change? vmxnet3.rev.30 = FALSE Vielen Dank.....Nick G > See also https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=864642 > https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/6s5dh6/debian_9_on_esxi_65u1_ > complete_lockup/ > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=191201#c49 > > Grüße, > Sven. >
