From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Farkas Levente Subject: rtl8139 stop working under high load Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:42:26 +0200 Message-ID: <48777F62.4070104@lfarkas.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kvm@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.191]:29324 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753355AbYGKPme (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:42:34 -0400 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id d3so1181749nfc.21 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:42:31 -0700 (PDT) Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: hi, i'm just switch to the use rtl8139 network emulator in kvm-70 for the guests, but under high load it's simple stop working. a reboot or even a service network restart solve the problem, but imho there should have to be some bug in the qemu's rtl8139 code. and there is not any kind of error in any log (neither the host's nor the guest's). this not happened with e1000. but with e1000 the network sometimes seems to breathing (sometimes slow down and then speed up again). do currently which is the preferred network network device in qemu/kvm? thanks. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"