Rolf Eike Beer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : [...] > I often see freezes when I do much outgoing transfer. I have never seen this > happening on incoming transfers. When this happens the system locks up hard, > I don't see anything in the log. Since this is my laptop I have trouble > debugging it: there is no serial console and debugging this via netconsole > doesn't look like a good idea.
Keyboard leds are dead afterwards I guess, right ? If you are experiencing bugs related to networking, I suggest to stay away from netconsole. It is not funny to analyze several bugs at the same time. > When I say "much outgoing transfer" this means "several megabytes". If I copy > out 30 MB I almost everytime get this. I usually copy that much only at home > when I feed my gentoo server. That host only has a 10 MBit connection. > Nevertheless I've also seen that on different hosts using different files on > different protocols (ftp, scp, smb). :o/ So it can be reproduced with a simple ftp put of several megabytes of data completely cached in memory (no disk access) ? [...] > This is the output of lspci for my NIC: > > 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E PCI > Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 01) I have not seen a lot of reports for this one. Either it is perfect or it is barely used. [...] > Hm, is there a reason why we don't use MSI here? A request for testers was posted (netdev + lk) on 16/03/2007 which contained MSI code for the 8168. I did not enable it for the 8101 because it had only received (positive) reports from 8168 users. Afair, the RFT got no feedback. > Ah, one thing is missing: I've not tested it with current kernel, latest I > tested was 2.6.21-rc7. But I've seen this on many previous version, although > I thought it became better some versions ago. I wont bet on it, it might just > have been luck. You can/should try: http://www.fr.zoreil.com/linux/kernel/2.6.x/2.6.22-rc2 (patch-kit) or: http://www.fr.zoreil.com/people/francois/misc/20070522-2.6.22-rc2-r8169.patch If you are fluent with git and you do not mind rebasing, you can try git://electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com/home/romieu/linux/linux-2.6-out r8169 (don't do the initial clone from here, thanks) As an option, akpm includes the git branch for you in -mm. -- Ueimor - 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
