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On Mittwoch 03 Juni 2009, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: |
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> After a long discussion with a friend I changed some kernel-configs: |
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> * Large Receive Offload (INET_LRO) disabled. |
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> * Changed allocator from SLUB to SLAB |
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> These two made the system much more stable, much less allocation error |
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> messages, but not yet stable enough (still some freezes) |
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> * Increased /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes. was at 8065, changed it to 16000 |
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> which made the page allocations nearly disappear at all, with 20000 I |
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> didn't find any message after having copied more than 500GB. But still one |
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> freeze :-( |
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> * Tried kernel boot parameter "noapic". Copied 500GB without any problem. |
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> No freeze, no page alloc error, no transmit timeout in rtl8169 driver. |
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> With this configuration I consider the problem as solved. |
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> Greetings and thanks to all who answered me |
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> Alex |
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and now you go to lkml and report your finding there. It is either a hardware |
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bug which needs a workaround in the driver or a driver bug that must be fixed. |
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Either way, be a good citizen, report your problem. |
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