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.
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