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
