Transmit timeouts in v1.06 (v1.09l is worse??)

[Zivago 'Jaeman' Lee]

Same for me, anything newer than 1.05 hangs the network. I am able to
press the 3 finger salute no problem and when it boots up, it works again.
But with the 1.05, I haven't to reboot in 24 days so far.

Z

On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Andreas Vierengel wrote:

> 
> 
> Mark Hagger wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've been running kernel 2.2.5 under Redhat 5.2 on a parallel cluster of
> > machines.  Unfortunately under high network, CPU and disk I/O load I kept
> > getting repeated Transmit timeouts messages from the eepro100 driver, (v1.06),
> > these effectively left the machine hung up and I typically had to power off to
> > reboot it.
> > 
> > I've tried replacing v1.06 with the latest version v1.09l, but if anything this
> > was worse, under the same conditions of load the machines now fatally crashes,
> > I got a kernel oops once but it didn't appear in the syslog so I wasn't able to
> > process it.  Other than that the machine typically locks solid (blank screen as
> > well sadly), and I couldn't do anything except power off.
> > 
> > Is anyone out there having any sucess with these eepro100 cards, I see a number
> > of people getting similiar problems with machines with high network traffic.
> > 
> > Unfortunately this is somewhat killing my parallel application, as I update my
> > code to get better network throughput I am able to crash/hang the machines
> > quicker......
> 
> :-)
> But seriously, I had the same problems under high load, even with 2.0.x kernel.
> I switched back to 1.05 and all is working again. Maybe for you, too ??
> 
> --Andy
> 

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