Bug#501742: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64: Random hangs/slowness and forcedeth problem
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 01:26:44AM +0200, Per Foreby wrote:
> Package: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64
> Version: 2.6.26-5
> Severity: important
>
> On versions before 2.6.26 i have been getting lots of messages like
> this:
>
> eth0: too many iterations (6) in nv_nic_irq
>
> Apart from filling up the log, the has been no noticable impact on the
> system.
>
> After upgrading to 2.6.26, the system started to misbehave. It would
> work for a few hours, and then it would slow down to the degree where a
> simple command could take several minutes to complete. Finally, it
> would become totally unresponsive leaving the reset button as the only
> option.
[..]
> This is a production server/firewall, and I wasn't able to take any more
> downtime, so when hpet=disable didn't work, I reverted to a previous
> kernel (2.6.24-7). Apart from the "normal" error messages ("too many
> iterations...") the system has been stable for three days now.
This has been fixed in commit
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=dccd547e2bf2c01a13c967ae03a705338394fad6
Could you apply that patch on top of the current kernel source package
and test, whether it fixes the problem for you? If so, it could be
integrated into a kernel update for a point release.
Cheers,
Moritz
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