Re: 3c59x NIC overruns with multicast makes networking freeze

From: Andrew Morton (andrewm@uow.edu.au)
Date: Sat Sep 23 2000 - 00:45:50 EST

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Arnaud Installe wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Has anyone else seen a lot of overruns while serving multicast on a pretty
> loaded (60%) network, with 3c59x cards ?

One other thing: if something is diabling interrupts for more than 500
microseconds you can get Rx overruns.

IDE can block interrupts for several millisconds. Are you using IDE
disks? If so, you should use `hdparm -u1 /dev/hdX' so it is more
interrupt-friendly.
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