Hi - I recently bought three rtl8169 gigabit cards, along with a gigabit switch. Trouble is, the computers keep freezing up once the NIC comes under and "decent" amount of load. Let me lay this out for you a bit:
Computer A: -Dual AMD 2600+ MP -rtl8169 under *64-bit PCI slot* -2.6.12 (vanilla) Computer B: -Intel P4 2.4GHz -rtl8169 under 32-bit PCI slot -2.6.10 (vanilla) ...and then a bunch of 100mbps computers. I keep a bunch of music on B, and play it on A. All is fine. I mount /srv on A, work a ton with it (server is B), all is fine. -I start up a bittorrent, computer hard locks shortly after. -I start up a big FTP transfer *from a 100mbps device*, computer hard locks seconds after. -Computer B, a while ago, started with random freezes once this NIC was put into action. I have yet to see them as of late, however. -Computer A has been switched back to a 100mbps device, all is fine. I've googled around (quite a bit), and found many many different patches for the 8169 driver. So, I ask you this: is there any known solution to this problem? I've checked the logs, there's nothing in them. All that I can really tell is that this NIC (under linux, the windows driver works fine so I'm quite sure it's not a hardware issue) causes a hard system lock under small load (torrenting at ~500kB/sec locks it up, FTP transfers from a 10/100 device locks it up). Any help would be appreciated. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
