Re: [gentoo-user] Serious stability problems [SOLVED]

[Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>]

On Mittwoch 03 Juni 2009, Alexander Puchmayr wrote:
> After a long discussion with a friend I changed some kernel-configs:
>
> * Large Receive Offload (INET_LRO) disabled.
> * Changed allocator from SLUB to SLAB
>
> These two made the system much more stable, much less allocation error
> messages, but not yet stable enough (still some freezes)
>
> * Increased /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes. was at 8065, changed it to 16000
> which made the page allocations nearly disappear at all, with 20000 I
> didn't find any message after having copied more than 500GB. But still one
> freeze :-(
>
> * Tried kernel boot parameter "noapic". Copied 500GB without any problem.
> No freeze, no page alloc error, no transmit timeout in rtl8169 driver.
>
> With this configuration I consider the problem as solved.
>
> Greetings and thanks to all who answered me
> 	Alex

and now you go to lkml and report your finding there. It is either a hardware 
bug which needs a workaround in the driver or a driver bug that must be fixed.

Either way, be a good citizen, report your problem.