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, 10 Jan 2002 19:39:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 19:39:27 -0500 Received: from basket.ball.reliam.net ([213.91.6.7]:43023 "HELO basket.ball.reliam.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 19:39:16 -0500 Message-ID: <3C3E343E.9030903@gmx.net> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 01:39:26 +0100 From: Michael Klose User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.7+) Gecko/20020110 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Strange: load=stable, running idle=unstable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, I recently had problems with 2 eepro100 cards in my system. I could crash the kernel (only reboot helped) if I copied a 700 MB file to the server. It crashed after 100 MB or so. I experimented a bit with the intel eepro drivers, the kernel drivers as a loadable module, compiled in etc, but it all didn't make much difference. I had the most problems with 2.4.17 (vanilla). The most stable kernel seemed to be 2.4.15pre5. I found out that the kernel stays absolutely stable if it is under load. I first tried compiling a kernel non stop for 3 days in a loop. System was absolutely stable. I switched from non-stop compiling to running setiathome. Also makes the kernel run beautifully. But as soon as the kenel is doing nothing except light routing of the 768/128kbit DSL into the 100 MBit LAN and mainly running idle, as soon as you try and copy a large file via SMB - kaboom - kernel crashes. Hardware: Soyo BX Dual PII motherboard with a single PII 266. 2 IDE HDDs (Maxtor) and a ATI PCI graphics card (no framebuffer or so compiled in, and no X, it is a server). SMB support is not compiled in, neither is any form of power management. I thought this may be interesting to some people.