On 10.03.2019 20:02, VDR User wrote: > Hi, after updating to kernel 5.0, the nic driver (r8169) has been > crashing whenever I start using heavy traffic on it (for example, > xferring large files to the box across my lan). The destination > harddrive may be sleeping and need to spin-up, or not, but the box > itself does not suspend/hibernate. The nic becomes completely > unresponsive and all connections to the box drop. After what I think > is several minutes, the connection comes back to life. The problem > happens consistently but seemingly not consistently at the same point. > For example, I can xfer a few 4gb files and it will crash at around > 2-3gb on the first file. The next time it might not crash until 2-3gb > on the second file.Prior to kernel 5.0 I was using 4.19.12 and this > problem didn't occur. I have since downgraded back to 4.19.12 pending > what response this post gets. > > Thanks for any help or assistance on how to proceed! > -Derek > Thanks for the report. Helpful would be: - full dmesg output - "lspci -vv" output (as root) for the network card - ethtool -S <if> output
Can you test a recent 4.20 kernel? This would narrow down the number of potentially problematic patches. Heiner
