Vibol Hou wrote: > > I've reported this problem a long while ago, but no one answered my pleas. > To tell you the honest truth, I don't know where to begin looking. It's > difficult to poke around when the serial console is unresponsive :/ > Sounds like a network driver problem. Are you still getting the "hordes" of Tx timeouts with the 3c905B which you reported a week ago? If so, do they only start coming out when the slowdown occurs? You are probably a victim of the APIC bug. A workaround for this is present in 2.4.2-ac5. Alternatively, boot the kernel with the `noapic' LILO option. Please let us know the outcome. - - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/