Wm. Josiah Erikson [josiah@cw.insanetechnology.com] wrote:
> Hello all,
> I have debian sarge with kernel 2.4.20 on a Compaq XP1000 (500Mhz
> EV6 with 512MB of RAM), and the ethernet randomly "freezes" all the time,
> for anywhere from 1 second to 30 seconds or so. I've tried this with three
> different ethernet cards - an RTL8139, a 3c905-TX, and the original
> DECChip tulip card. All exhibited exactly the same behavior. I tried
> changing the ethernet cable, and plugging it into an HP 10Mbit switch
> instead of the Cisco 3500XL that it's normally plugged into. Does anybody
> have any clues as to why this would be? Is more information needed? Should
> I report this to the kernel list instead? I can send my kernel config if
> that would be useful (it's a custom kernel, as all of mine are)
> Thanks!
BTW I also had lots of errors in the kernel log:
Apr 5 19:17:15 bestor kernel: eth0: Tx ring dump, Tx queue 535658 /
535598:
Apr 5 19:17:15 bestor kernel: eth0: 0 200ca000.
Apr 5 19:17:15 bestor kernel: eth0: 1 000ca000.
Apr 5 19:17:15 bestor kernel: eth0: 2 000ca000.
...
Apr 5 19:17:15 bestor kernel: eth0: Printing Rx ring (next to receive
into 293216, dirty index 293216).
Apr 5 19:17:15 bestor kernel: eth0: 0 00000001.
Apr 5 19:17:15 bestor kernel: eth0: 1 00000001.
Apr 5 19:17:15 bestor kernel: eth0: 2 00000001.
...
Cheers,
Bob McElrath [Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison, Department of Physics]
"You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the
freedom it gives its assimilated conformists." -- Abbie Hoffman
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