On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Jake Johnson wrote:
> I have a pci dlink 530T and I am using the via-rhine.o module and I keep
> getting this error message in my sys-log. Everything works but I was
> hoping to find more info on this error!
>
What network services are you trying to provide/use at the time?
They are annoying, but can perhaps be ignored (but of course you'd like
them to stop, right?), depending on what you are trying to do.
I have gotten this message (I love the message: some wicked happened :-)
when NFS exporting file system to an old Sun Solaris box. I restored
files from backup tapes on the Solaris box to the Linux file systems
(vrestore). (Linux to the rescue! I just happened to have a PC with
RedHat that I'd just installed with an 18GB drive (<$130 at that time).
Where else would we have had the disk space to restore all the huge
database files in order to look for the right one from which to get all
their data back (this was a disk emergency on the solaris system and
involved re-engineering the oracle database).
When I used the Oracle import function to read some
data back from backup (now copied to the Linux box) to the database on the
Solaris box, I'd keep getting those error messages, every now and then
(dealing with files of a GB or so). What counts is that things worked,
but I got several notices of alleged "wicked" activity on my system! :-)
In my case, since I was just using this configuration temporarily, and
things worked.
I suspect the problem came possibly from: different block size of
ufs (Solaris) and e2fs (Linux) file systems, perhaps something funky
about the particular records (size?) being read, and perhaps something
slightly incompatible with (newer) Linux NFS service and (older) Sun NFS
mount. Of course, I'm curious and would like to know myself. We were
pushing data along at a pretty good clip (the 10T segment was quiet
except for this transaction, Pentium III 500 on my end)!
I don't think the problem came from the ethernet drivers (I had via-rhine
with DLINK PCI), but, then I admittedly didn't read the source code yet
to see what conditions can cause the error.
The point of my story is to show how it might depend on what you
are doing with network services. Are you providing nfs mounts of
partitions to other systems? What else might you be doing?
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