From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 18:49:12 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] 2.4.1 network problems Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Can't say I have the problem you're describing. I did have one strange NFS related hang yesterday, after 13 days of uptime on a 2-way Big Sur. I did an "rpm -Uvh" while the current working directory was on an NFS mounted filesystem and the "rpm" hung (even though the RPM file itself was on a local filesystem). It appeared that the __rpc_execute() was waiting for an event that never happened and there didn't seem to be a timeout either. Of course, when doing the same thing again after rebooting the system, it worked just fine. Also, note that it was only that one "rpm" process that got stuck (so it's not like the kernel's timer facility was hosed all together). So, for now, we should probably focus on trying to find a test case that reproduces the problem reliably (or at least with decent frequency). Actually, IIRC, there are some eepro100 patches in the pipe for 2.4.2, but I haven't played with it. Also, given that Mike says the problems happen both with e100 and eepro100, I suspect those won't help. --david >>>>> On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 15:43:37 -0800, Michael Madore said: Mike> Hi, I am experiencing a lot of problems with 2.4.1 + David's Mike> patch on Lions. If I try to scp a file from another machine Mike> the network connection dies almost immediately. If I restrict Mike> the memory available to the kernel at boot time to 1024MB, Mike> then the problem seems to go away. I've tried this on 4 Mike> Lions, all with the eepro100 card. Mike> Has anyone else seen this? I've had problems with the Mike> eepro100 before, but things are much worse now. Mike> -- Mike Madore Software Engineer TurboLinux, Inc. Mike> _______________________________________________ Linux-IA64 Mike> mailing list Linux-IA64@linuxia64.org Mike> http://lists.linuxia64.org/lists/listinfo/linux-ia64