From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kasper Sandberg Subject: Re: System hangs on raid md recovery/resync - revisit Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 15:14:51 +0100 Message-ID: <1235916891.11077.3.camel@localhost> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Justin Piszcz Cc: Brad , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 07:04 -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > On Sat, 28 Feb 2009, Brad wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Justin Piszcz wrote: > >> > >> On Sat, 28 Feb 2009, Brad wrote: > >> > >>> Hi. I'd like to revisit a problem I put to the mailing list on the > > I've had another problem with the Realtek network driver ... under network > > load it seemed to miss interrupts and/or pass them to the IDE driver, which > > would print out errors about unexpected/unknown interrupts. I had to take > > IDE out of my kernel. > Correct, buy an Intel 1GBPS PCI-e card, I do for all of my main machines > that do not have Intel NICs, solves the problem. They are $30-40 and then > all of your network issues will be solved. > > > I have a gigabyte X48 board with two of those realtek NICs, and apart from some driver troubles which the r8169 maintainer fixed for me, i've had no issues with it. I suggest contacting the maintainer if you really believe its the NIC and/or driver > Justin.