From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jarek Poplawski Subject: Re: Debugging kernel lockups during network activity Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:39:10 +0200 Message-ID: <44CA218E.6040502@o2.pl> References: <20060727181943.GD23091@artsapartment.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mx2.go2.pl ([193.17.41.42]:44702 "EHLO poczta.o2.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161178AbWG1Oid (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Jul 2006 10:38:33 -0400 Received: from [192.168.100.10] (bv170.internetdsl.tpnet.pl [80.53.205.170]) by poczta.o2.pl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4341E7480D8 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:38:32 +0200 (CEST) To: netdev@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20060727181943.GD23091@artsapartment.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On 27-07-2006 20:19, Art Haas wrote: > Hi. > > I've got Fedora Rawhide running on a SMP PIII machine, and the latest > kernels from Fedora have been locking up when I run 'yum update' to > get the latest packages. I also experience lock-ups when I use > Firefox to do some web browsing. Not all my network usage results in a > lockup, however. I can usually do 'git pull' and update git itself or > my copy of Linus' kernel tree without problems, as well as update my > GCC repo with subversion and Mozilla with cvs. I realize that running > Fedora Rawhide means when things break I can keep the pieces, so > the lockups or other occasional issues are not unexpected. I don't know the numbers of this kernels, but did you try linux-2.6.18-rc2. It has some great patch to queue scheduler by Hubert Xu. I think it is some Gnu/miracle that it has been working (mostly) under heavy load without this patch. But there are also other possibilities... Jarek P.