Re: BUG: warning at kernel/softirq.c:141/local_bh_enable()

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Tue Oct 17 2006 - 09:56:42 EST


On Tuesday 17 October 2006 15:50, John Philips wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently upgraded some router/NAT devices from 2.4.25 to 2.6.17.8.
> They're using VIA C3 processors and NatSemi DP83815 NICs.
>
> Right after the upgrade I started noticing these error messages on one of
> the heavier-loaded boxes. This particular box routes and does NAT for
> around 400 users, peaking at 6Mb/sec of throughput.
>
> The errors were happening about every 3-5 minutes. I statically set eth6
> to 100baseTX-FD with mii-tool, and now the errors appear every few hours
> for 10-20 minute stretches.
>
> I searched Google and couldn't find any insight (FYI, I'm NOT using the
> CIPE patches).
>
> Any ideas?

Could you send us, once your machine is handling its typical load :

lspci -v
ethtool -S eth6
tc -s -d qdisc
cat /proc/slabinfo
cat /proc/meminfo

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