Re: 2.2.13 & high network load

Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl)
14 Dec 1999 16:35:03 GMT

In article <cistron.Pine.LNX.4.10.9912141729450.13807-100000@eos.dobrich.net>,
<vasil@eos.dobrich.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>I have a problem with stock 2.2.13.I have a machine that serves web traffic
>at about 10Mbps (as mrtg says),and recently,with the bandwith increase from
>5 to 10 Mbit I had interesting problems - after about 14 hours of serving
>trafic at about 10Mbit,the machine stopped responding to pings.

I have seen that same effect with tulip, eepro100 and epic100 cards.
All of those cards use drivers by Donald Becker with a (since a while)
known design problem. You are using:

>3c59x.c:v0.99H 11/17/98 Donald Becker
>http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
>eth0: 3Com 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at 0xec00, 00:10:4b:d3:b0:44, IRQ 9

I bet this is the same bug. Patches are floating around for the
tulip driver, there is an alternative eepro100 driver, but I don't
know of fixes for the epic100 or 3c59x.

Mike.

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