Tom Ivar Helbekkmo <[email protected]> writes: > The local change seemed to improve things quite a bit, but not entirely > to fix the situation, but after upgrading to a newer -current, I seem to > be able to load the server down with very heavy disk and network > activity, with no ill effects. It's only been running with the upgraded > kernel for a couple of days, so I'm not entirely trusting it yet, but > I'm hopeful.
...and definitely getting more hopeful all the time. I still get the occasional network hangs, but I'm not bothered by them, because I'm asleep at the time. My nightly backups are fine, but later, when /etc/daily runs, it will sometimes trigger the problem. I only notice it because my IRC client times out and reconnects, and the various components of my MooseFS distributed file system lose their connectivity and take a while to reconnect, possibly because MooseFS wants large network buffers and can't get them for a while. Basically, things are still not right, but good enough for home use. -tih -- It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong. -Richard Feynman
