RE: Sytem slowdown on 2.4.1-ac20 (recurring from 2.4.0)

2001-02-28 Thread Balbir Singh
Just FYI: I remember posting something a few days ago to make the serial console more reliable for such situations. Some allocations in the serial port driver are done at runtime using page_alloc, if somebody runs out of memory the serial tty driver would not work properly. I am not saying that

RE: Sytem slowdown on 2.4.1-ac20 (recurring from 2.4.0)

2001-02-28 Thread Balbir Singh
Just FYI: I remember posting something a few days ago to make the serial console more reliable for such situations. Some allocations in the serial port driver are done at runtime using page_alloc, if somebody runs out of memory the serial tty driver would not work properly. I am not saying that

Re: Sytem slowdown on 2.4.1-ac20 (recurring from 2.4.0)

2001-02-26 Thread Andrew Morton
Vibol Hou wrote: > > > Are you still getting the "hordes" of Tx timeouts with the > > 3c905B which you reported a week ago? > > Yes, but they happen a few hours after the system starts up and continue > until the server is restarted. It seems like a separate issue. I haven't > tried taking

RE: Sytem slowdown on 2.4.1-ac20 (recurring from 2.4.0)

2001-02-26 Thread Vibol Hou
t happens will help. Thanks! -- Vibol Hou KhmerConnection, http://khmer.cc -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Andrew Morton Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 4:44 PM To: Vibol Hou Cc: Linux-Kernel Subject: Re: Sytem slowdown on 2.4.1-ac20 (recurring f

Re: Sytem slowdown on 2.4.1-ac20 (recurring from 2.4.0)

2001-02-26 Thread Andrew Morton
Vibol Hou wrote: > > I've reported this problem a long while ago, but no one answered my pleas. > To tell you the honest truth, I don't know where to begin looking. It's > difficult to poke around when the serial console is unresponsive :/ > Sounds like a network driver problem. Are you

Re: Sytem slowdown on 2.4.1-ac20 (recurring from 2.4.0)

2001-02-26 Thread Andrew Morton
Vibol Hou wrote: I've reported this problem a long while ago, but no one answered my pleas. To tell you the honest truth, I don't know where to begin looking. It's difficult to poke around when the serial console is unresponsive :/ Sounds like a network driver problem. Are you still

RE: Sytem slowdown on 2.4.1-ac20 (recurring from 2.4.0)

2001-02-26 Thread Vibol Hou
! -- Vibol Hou KhmerConnection, http://khmer.cc -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Andrew Morton Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 4:44 PM To: Vibol Hou Cc: Linux-Kernel Subject: Re: Sytem slowdown on 2.4.1-ac20 (recurring from 2.4.0) Vibol

Re: Sytem slowdown on 2.4.1-ac20 (recurring from 2.4.0)

2001-02-26 Thread Andrew Morton
Vibol Hou wrote: Are you still getting the "hordes" of Tx timeouts with the 3c905B which you reported a week ago? Yes, but they happen a few hours after the system starts up and continue until the server is restarted. It seems like a separate issue. I haven't tried taking down the