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Re: random crashes during heavy data transfers



Yes, well, sort of.  I started getting crashes when I upgraded from
2.4.16 to 2.4.19, but couldn't tell what was causing it.  Could well
have been a network problem.

I haven't tried any more recent kernels.  Unfortunately, this means that
the netwinder is not secure... :-(  I'll upgrade to sarge soon and
report back on newer kernels.

On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 15:38, Stefan Wuerthner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I experience for some time now random crashes on my otherwise stable
> netwinder setup (Debian 3.0, kernel 2.4.19-rmk7-nw1). The transfers
> are between two netwinders connected to a switch (100 mbit ports).
> 
> This only happens during 'big' data transfers. I already accepted that
> NFS is the cause for this problem, but now I even cannot transfer
> several gigs by ftp reliably.
> 
> After some time during the transfer (after several gigs are transferred)
> the client machine hangs.
> 
> Unfortunately no error message can be found on the serial console.
> 
> Is there a way to investigate this further?
> 
> Is it possible to decide whether it is a hardware issue (heat, bad RAM)
> or a software issue (bugs in DMA driver, tulip driver etc.)
> 
> Does anybody have similar problems with heavy transfer load on a netwinder
> running Debian?
-Adam P.

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