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On Jun 3, 2009, at 1:17 AM, Florian Philipp wrote: |
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> Alexander Puchmayr schrieb: |
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>> Hi there! |
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>> |
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>> My freshly setup homeserver has serious stability problem, which |
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>> make the |
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>> the machine absolutely unuseable as home server. |
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> [...] |
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>> The problem is, when I copy large amount of data via nfs to the |
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>> server, then |
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>> the logs get filled with entries like this: |
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>> The second problem is that the network controler (rtl8169) seems to |
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>> timeout |
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>> on TX, which is very bad if it happens during renewing your dhcp- |
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>> lease :-( |
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>> the message looks like |
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>> |
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>> The worst thing however is an occasional freeze of the whole |
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>> system, which |
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>> happens very likely when there is high network load over nfs. If that |
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>> happens, I have a blank console, no network, no keyboard, nothing. |
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>> Not even |
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>> sysrq seems to work, which makes it pretty hard to tell what has |
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>> happened. |
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>> After resetting the machine, there is nothing suspicious in the |
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>> logs (it |
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>> just ends). |
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>> Does anyone have suggestions? |
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> |
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> Do you have a spare network adapter, maybe an older 100MBit PCI card? |
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> Maybe we should rule out a hardware fault on your ethernet chipset |
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> first. |
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> |
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I had a similar issue over a year ago. My problem turned out to be |
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the switch I |
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was connecting to was bad. I didn't discover this until I physically |
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ran a 50ft |
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cable between the two computers just to rule out my infrastructure. |
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Surprise. :) |
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Just for grins, here's my nfs mount options: |
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-rsize=8192,wsize=8192,soft,timeo=30,rw |
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My main gentoo box is down at the moment (power supply being RMA'd), but |
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I recall I had to set the unsecure option so my macbook could connect. |
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HTH, |
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Roy |
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