From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: sky2 hangs without any messages Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 07:50:26 -0700 Message-ID: <20070523075026.3f78e306@freepuppy> References: <20070523075431.GA15935@dose.home.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Tino Keitel Return-path: Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([207.189.120.12]:39660 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755780AbXEWOue (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 May 2007 10:50:34 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070523075431.GA15935@dose.home.local> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, 23 May 2007 09:54:31 +0200 Tino Keitel wrote: > Hi folks, > > in the last 2 days, I had 2 outages of the NIC of my Mac mini Core Duo. > I checked the kernel log but I found nothing sky2 related. After > reloading the module, the interface worked again. > > Both freezes were connected to access from a remote NFS client to a > directory with ~4700 files in it. Both times, after reloading the > module and waiting some minutes until the NFS client had recovered from > the hanging NFS server, the same action worked. > > The network is 100 mbit full duplex. I use NFS over TCP and kernel > 2.6.21 with the "disable flow control" patch, the configuration is > attached. > Don't use that patch, it isn't needed and probably causes problem. Please get output of 'ethtool -d eth0'; more recent versions of ethtool can decode the register format. Older versions just print hex. -- Stephen Hemminger