Erratic memory allocation, page allocation failures, and crashing on 2.6.32 with e1000e

2010-06-17 Thread Kelvin Ku
After upgrading from Fedora Core 6 (2.6.22) to Fedora Core 12 (2.6.32) I started seeing page allocation failures when running a UDP multicast packet writer under load. Under particularly high load, the machine sometimes crashes. This was fixed on one machine by adding memory (total memory increased

ntpd query failure

2010-05-24 Thread Kelvin Ku
We run 'ntpdate -q' once daily to check the ntpd sync status of the hosts in our network. On one host, this check is failing sporadically today: $ for i in `seq 1 10` ; do ntpdate -q 192.168.129.110 ; sleep 1 ; done server 192.168.129.110, stratum 4, offset -0.001034, delay 0.02693 24 May 10:11:16

Re: Nehalem network performance

2010-02-16 Thread Kelvin Ku
On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 07:35:11AM +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: > > > > > > Can you post the output of $ mpstat -P 1 ALL during peak load? > > > > > > > We run "mpstat -P 5 ALL" continuously; is this sufficient resolution? I've > > attached the mpstat output from the 09:30-10:30 yesterday, which

Re: Nehalem network performance

2010-02-16 Thread Kelvin Ku
On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 07:35:11AM +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: > On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 14:59 -0500, Kelvin Ku wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:22:05PM +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: > > > > which > > > > was throttling the CPUs to 1.6 GHz (from a maximum of

Re: RX performance degradation with e1000e in Linux 2.6.31 / F12

2010-02-10 Thread Kelvin Ku
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:56:47PM -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Kelvin Ku wrote: > > After upgrading from Linux 2.6.30 (Fedora Core 11) to 2.6.31 (F12), I am > > experiencing significant packet loss on an Intel 82574L NIC running on the > > e1000e driver. I was not e

Corrupt /proc/interrupts with e1000e

2010-02-10 Thread Kelvin Ku
I see the following in /proc/interrupts 55: 0 0 0 338331 PCI-MSI-edge lan0-rx-0 56: 0 0 0 2664 PCI-MSI-edge lan0-tx-0 57: 47230 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge lan0 58:427 0

RX performance degradation with e1000e in Linux 2.6.31 / F12

2010-02-10 Thread Kelvin Ku
After upgrading from Linux 2.6.30 (Fedora Core 11) to 2.6.31 (F12), I am experiencing significant packet loss on an Intel 82574L NIC running on the e1000e driver. I was not experiencing this with kernel 2.6.30. I notice 2.6.30 uses e1000e version 0.3.3.4-k4 whereas 2.6.31 uses version 1.0.2-k2. I

Re: Nehalem network performance

2010-01-27 Thread Kelvin Ku
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 09:01:53AM +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: > On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 19:07 -0500, Kelvin Ku wrote: > > We recently purchased our first Nehalem-based system with a single Xeon > > E5530 > > CPU. We were unable to boot FC6 on it and are trying to upgrad

Nehalem network performance

2010-01-26 Thread Kelvin Ku
re, I'd like to hear from you too. Thanks, Kelvin Ku -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines