Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardwarerelated?

[Frank de Lange]

On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 09:54:31PM +0100, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> I have found one combination that doesn't hang with the unpatched
> 8390.c, but network throughput is down to 1/2. I hope that's due to the
> debugging changes.

Hm, could it be that the fact that network throughput is halved causes the
problem not to appear? Remember, it only appears under HEAVY network load. A
single nfs cp -rd <big_dir> was not enough to hang my network, I needed to add
at least another cp -rd or some streaming audio or something else...

Cheers//Frank

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