On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 11:24:35AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 18:48:37 +0000 > fs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 10:40:00AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > > > Maybe the hang I notice is different because it stays with this patch > > > > and appears primarily after using multiple connections. > > > > > > > > An easy way to reproduce it here is this > > > > > > > > axel -n 40 http://..file (a downloader that opens 40 connections) > > > > > > > > it will go on downloading normally without problem. > > > > > > > > If I ctrl-c that process and immediately re-run it, it will not start > > > > again (or any other internet connection). > > > > > > > > rmmod, modprobe and reconfiguring the iface brings it back to normal. > > > > > > > > I haven't checked if all those 40 connections are opened or at some > > > > point it doesn't open more than 10 or sth. > > > > > > > > Let me know if I can help somehow further. > > > > > > How far away is the site you are downloading from. Perhaps it just means > > > you > > > have lots of connections open, and the memory is getting low. I can't > > > reproduce > > > it here (downloading from kernel.org on P4 with motherboard chip and > > > 2.6.16-git latest). > > > But I have 2G of memory. > > > > The problem doesn't appear with the proprietary driver on .15 on the > > same sites. Basically, when the "hang" happens I can't open an inet > > connection without rmmod, modprobe, iface reconfiguration. I have 1.5gb. > > Do you see anything on the console log (dmesg) like transmit timeouts? > or allocation failures?
no, nothing out of the ordinary on dmesg. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html