Bug#617635: Network connection drops under heavy load (tg3 driver)
- To: "David A. Parker" <dparker@utica.edu>
- Cc: 617635@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: Bug#617635: Network connection drops under heavy load (tg3 driver)
- From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 09:53:36 -0600
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20120115155336.GA2783@burratino>
- Reply-to: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>, 617635@bugs.debian.org
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Hi again,
Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> David A. Parker wrote:
>> Adding 'idle=mwait' solved the problem (tested with 2.6.38-2-amd64).
[...]
> This means amd_e400_idle is buggy, I guess.
>
> I don't see any obvious fixes upstream, but since it's been a while,
> it would be useful to check a more current kernel. Please test a
> 3.1.y kernel from unstable
Did you get a chance to try this? The only packages from outside
squeeze that should be needed aside from the kernel itself are
linux-base and initramfs-tools.
In suspense,
Jonathan
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