From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rolf Eike Beer Subject: Re: r8169: hard freezes on TX Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 08:48:25 +0200 Message-ID: <200705230848.33299.eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> References: <200705201520.36672.eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> <20070522202934.GA21991@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3494678.9gMTz0j9P8"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Francois Romieu Return-path: Received: from mail.sf-mail.de ([62.27.20.61]:35980 "EHLO mail.sf-mail.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756373AbXEWGsg (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 May 2007 02:48:36 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070522202934.GA21991@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org --nextPart3494678.9gMTz0j9P8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline =46rancois Romieu wrote: > Rolf Eike Beer : > [...] Ok, just tested. I used a file of 200MB and copied it to another host on th= e=20 LAN. If I used our 100 MBit switch nothing happened. When I put a 10 MBit h= ub=20 in the middle it died at 77 MB. > > I often see freezes when I do much outgoing transfer. I have never seen > > this happening on incoming transfers. When this happens the system locks > > up hard, I don't see anything in the log. Since this is my laptop I have > > trouble debugging it: there is no serial console and debugging this via > > netconsole doesn't look like a good idea. > > Keyboard leds are dead afterwards I guess, right ? Yes. > > When I say "much outgoing transfer" this means "several megabytes". If I > > copy out 30 MB I almost everytime get this. I usually copy that much on= ly > > at home when I feed my gentoo server. That host only has a 10 MBit > > connection. Nevertheless I've also seen that on different hosts using > > different files on different protocols (ftp, scp, smb). > > > :o/ > > So it can be reproduced with a simple ftp put of several megabytes of > data completely cached in memory (no disk access) ? I used scp, but: yes. Eike --nextPart3494678.9gMTz0j9P8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBGU+PBXKSJPmm5/E4RAnwCAJ9roQx4mOCRZB2VnCCDSXzAZXFQGwCfTDCX IcijChxMG4EwBbjVTuhkBTM= =4i6d -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3494678.9gMTz0j9P8--