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 1MBkVp-0000DM-Sq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 03 Jun 2009 07:03:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 346EBE0359; Wed, 3 Jun 2009 07:03:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtprelay.hostedemail.com (smtprelay0103.hostedemail.com [216.40.44.103]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24F52E0359 for ; Wed, 3 Jun 2009 07:03:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from filter.hostedemail.com (ff-bigip1 [10.5.19.254]) by smtprelay01.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with SMTP id DD77912BF7C2; Wed, 3 Jun 2009 07:03:47 +0000 (UTC) X-Session-Marker: 726F79407772696768742E6F7267 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 2559 Received: from royw-macbook.wright.local (Port22.TB3.industryinet.com [66.63.237.22]) (Authenticated sender: roy@wright.org) by omf05.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP; Wed, 3 Jun 2009 07:03:47 +0000 (UTC) Message-Id: <6FC9910D-22F2-46CA-99A7-014117DE3D21@wright.org> From: Roy Wright To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <4A26157E.6030805@f_philipp.fastmail.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Serious stability problems, including freezes 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 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 02:03:46 -0500 References: <200906022240.08088.alexander.puchmayr@linznet.at> <4A26157E.6030805@f_philipp.fastmail.net> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.930.3) X-Archives-Salt: e02f6151-cdae-4d69-8986-ae5294f8cc33 X-Archives-Hash: 9c34411ce17226831973f41400041f87 On Jun 3, 2009, at 1:17 AM, Florian Philipp wrote: > Alexander Puchmayr schrieb: >> Hi there! >> >> My freshly setup homeserver has serious stability problem, which >> make the >> the machine absolutely unuseable as home server. >> > [...] >> >> The problem is, when I copy large amount of data via nfs to the >> server, then >> the logs get filled with entries like this: >> >> The second problem is that the network controler (rtl8169) seems to >> timeout >> on TX, which is very bad if it happens during renewing your dhcp- >> lease :-( >> the message looks like >> >> The worst thing however is an occasional freeze of the whole >> system, which >> happens very likely when there is high network load over nfs. If that >> happens, I have a blank console, no network, no keyboard, nothing. >> Not even >> sysrq seems to work, which makes it pretty hard to tell what has >> happened. >> After resetting the machine, there is nothing suspicious in the >> logs (it >> just ends). >> >> Does anyone have suggestions? >> > > Do you have a spare network adapter, maybe an older 100MBit PCI card? > Maybe we should rule out a hardware fault on your ethernet chipset > first. > I had a similar issue over a year ago. My problem turned out to be the switch I was connecting to was bad. I didn't discover this until I physically ran a 50ft cable between the two computers just to rule out my infrastructure. Surprise. :) Just for grins, here's my nfs mount options: -rsize=8192,wsize=8192,soft,timeo=30,rw My main gentoo box is down at the moment (power supply being RMA'd), but I recall I had to set the unsecure option so my macbook could connect. HTH, Roy