> Thanks for the report. It is quite clear. The device is (almost surely) > killed by a rx fifo overflow. Expect a patch shortly. > I wonder why it overflows in the first place though. How much time does > the 170 Mb transfer need ?
It is actually about a 30GB transfer, it was just after the first 170Mb that it failed. The command in question is just a simple "nc -l -p 12345|buffer|cpio -iumdB", and the sender may well be able to generate the data faster than the receiving disk can save it, as the sender is a raid-1 mirror and the receiver is a raid-5 array, I would expect the raid-5 write penalty and the raid-1 read speed to make it have to block for most of the transfer. It didn't take long to get that far- um, I think only 2 or 3 minutes before it locked up. -Tom -- May 4, 1970: Alison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer, William Schroeder. - 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
