From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MBtr2-0008WB-2Q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:02:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 25C5CE072F; Wed, 3 Jun 2009 17:02:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f212.google.com (mail-ew0-f212.google.com [209.85.219.212]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D95EFE072F for ; Wed, 3 Jun 2009 17:02:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy8 with SMTP id 8so181993ewy.43 for ; Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:02:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=qlUHPXlsrpFw4DmkEdM87NdDpX57ons0MBeZ652/1NM=; b=M6H0+TgRU1LcNPWUEdrpW7yiEyEoq3lms5nqf5J9+VM0bwseHcEccFePC8tRzP5k30 q+LASfyb7rHPenyMKI1f7ciU4BCa1XPshlYm+Tu/XSEWcJQh7Lv6TnGk5VR1s7QlxSXA xtqwNZwHip+yyacUkeAJg6esogQlBGV2Ajgoc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=HxcNgZ+cFvezvsjclHL2eDYFxCgCR7q9uJohaUxy9GgFpbUtrabBurPBlGOME/esT1 VoOjvq/lqKKIxJN1yozcLoy7Vu1gkawLaM5oAApiKyLaJFnXJ4YTBCrOBtDDhRdeaOhD fGJvONuI+6CcVl6tyISvsn0Z9/UkGQRJY6YAY= Received: by 10.210.35.5 with SMTP id i5mr6612682ebi.90.1244048538145; Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:02:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from energy.localnet (energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.197.94]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 5sm412302ewy.28.2009.06.03.10.02.16 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:02:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Serious stability problems [SOLVED] Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 19:02:12 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.90 (Linux/2.6.29.4r4; KDE/4.2.87; x86_64; ; ) References: <200906022240.08088.alexander.puchmayr@linznet.at> <4A26217D.5000002@xunil.at> <200906031847.52588.alexander.puchmayr@linznet.at> In-Reply-To: <200906031847.52588.alexander.puchmayr@linznet.at> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200906031902.12374.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 0621fa30-5d22-4bb6-b209-8ca52c034035 X-Archives-Hash: bb5d36f1f9c5941dcb785c7d49f4b853 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.