On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 16:12:47 -0800, john wrote > Hi all, > > I sent this as a reply to an old topic about firefox, but I decided > since this is not a firefox question, I'd send > it again with a more pertinent subject line. > > Problem: > > Recently we've had our edubuntu server become unresponive when we have > 20 or so users on it. We are running a two dual cores and 8 gigs of > ram so I don't think the CPU or memory is the problem. > > When I look at syslog or do dmesg I see "eth1: too many iterations > (6) in nv_nic_irq." these are typically the last messages logged right > before my server locks up and needs a hard reboot. > I see folks ran into this problem last August. > > I was wondering if jbarry (the person who first reported this > problem) ended up merely replacing the nics or did anyone go with > creating a file called "/etc/modprobe.d/forcedeth" and putting > "options forcedeth max_interrupt_work=10" in it. Did it work? > > I am trying to decide which > course to take and I'd appreciate any ideas folks could give me.
Read this thread, long read but it might give you some insight: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/130075 It looks like they are attributing this all to a problem between kernel versions and certain motherboards. Jim -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by the Cotter Technology Department, and is believed to be clean. -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
