Dylan Griffiths wrote:
> Just as an update, I've stopped fighting with the 2.6.20-15-generic
> included in Feisty and reverted to the 2.6.17-11-generic in
> Edgy-security. This comes after disabling ipv6 (which made the
> behaviour of my network subsystem locking up/failing harder to trigger
> in MythTV, but still easy to trigger in NFS transfers), and also
> swapping network cards.
As an update to this update, I upgraded my one server machine from a
single-core to a dual-core CPU. This was under Slackware with 2.6.20.7.
Going to SMP and using the E1000 driver seemed to lead to lockups
there, as well. The 2.6.20.7 w/o SMP worked fine with the E1000 driver.
I compiled 2.6.21.6 and 2.6.22.1 with and without SMP, and lucked out
that the 2.6.22.1 w/ SMP did not lockup under several tests (including
the tests that showed ~556Mbps throughput!). It seems that anyone who
has Ubuntu Feisty and an Intel EEPro 1000 card running in SMP will
experience the troubles I had unless they either:
-> Change their kernel (2.6.17.x or 2.6.22.x work in my testing).
-> Change to UMP for their machine (pretty bogus).
-> Get the Ubuntu folks to fix their Feisty kernel.
Once I have some free time (hahaha), I'll probably investigate this a
bit further to see what patch fixed this behaviour between 2.6.20 and
2.6.22.
Received on Fri Jul 13 20:27:52 2007
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