From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 16:48:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 16:48:48 -0500 Received: from panic.ohr.gatech.edu ([130.207.47.194]:55312 "EHLO havoc.gtf.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 16:48:35 -0500 Message-ID: <3A5E29D4.1AA38368@mandrakesoft.com> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 16:47:00 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik Organization: MandrakeSoft X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.1-pre1 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Frank de Lange CC: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardware related? In-Reply-To: <20010110223015.B18085@unternet.org> <3A5D9D87.8A868F6A@uow.edu.au> <20010111220943.F3269@unternet.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Frank de Lange wrote: > > OK, just one last addition to what has nearly become my own thread... > > I now am fairly certain that the problem (network stalls on multiprocessor systems) is not BP6 or NE2K-PCI specific. I found several postings which relate to similar problems on dissimilar hardware. Another interesting one is: > I have reported it some time ago, and now all I get with > 2.4.0-test11-pre4 and I think a additional patch is NETDEV WATCHDOG: > eth0: transmit timed out, and something in the console about lost irq? Are you judging based on the error message? The 'netdev watchdog ...' message is a generic error message that could have any number of causes. It's just saying, well, what it says :) The kernel was unable to transmit a packet in a certain amount of time. You might get these messages if you unplug a cable suddenly, or if your hardware isn't delivering interrupts, or many other things... Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | "You see, in this world there's two kinds of Building 1024 | people, my friend: Those with loaded guns MandrakeSoft | and those who dig. You dig." --Blondie - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/