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From: Peter Rival <frival@zk3.dec.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: "Cabaniols, Sebastien" <Sebastien.Cabaniols@Compaq.com>,
	"'Andrew Morton'" <andrewm@uow.edu.au>,
	"'netdev@oss.sgi.com'" <netdev@oss.sgi.com>,
	"'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"'davem@redhat.com'" <davem@redhat.com>,
	"'kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru'" <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Subject: Re: [BUG] freeze Alpha ES40 SMP 2.4.4.ac3, another TCP/IP Problem ? (  was 2.4.4 kernel crash , possibly tcp related )
Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 12:58:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AF18E38.8EA6314C@zk3.dec.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1FF17ADDAC64D0119A6E0000F830C9EA04B3CDD1@aeoexc1.aeo.cpqcorp.net> <20010503184610.T1162@athlon.random>

Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 06:16:02PM +0200, Cabaniols, Sebastien wrote:
> > The only thing that does not work under load is the network.... TCP/IP ?
>
> My alpha is running 2.4.4aa3 under very high load (apache beaten from ab
> in loop via 100mbit switched network [tulip on the alpha] plus cerberus)
> and I didn't had any problem so far (it only deadlocked with OOM after
> one day of day of tux [instead of apache] + cerberus regression testing
> but that's only because of a memleak in tux that I reproduced on x86 too
> it seems)
>

Silly question, Sebastien - when you do a "show config" at the console, how
is your card represented?  FWIU, there have been problems with adapters under
load that aren't fully supported by SRM...  Just a guess.  Could you try this
with a DE600 (Intel) or a DE500 (tulip)?

 - Pete


  reply	other threads:[~2001-05-03 17:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-03 16:16 [BUG] freeze Alpha ES40 SMP 2.4.4.ac3, another TCP/IP Problem ? ( was 2.4.4 kernel crash , possibly tcp related ) Cabaniols, Sebastien
2001-05-03 16:46 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-03 16:58   ` Peter Rival [this message]
2001-05-03 17:23   ` Andrea Arcangeli
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-05-03 17:41 Cabaniols, Sebastien
2001-05-03 17:53 Cabaniols, Sebastien

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