Hi John, We were not able to fully solve the problem, since the school opted to make individual workstations out of the 'fat clients' (they were fairly powerful). But the max_interrupt number that worked for me was 16 but I would still hit the error when too many students access flash game sites.
I guess the best way for others to not encounter this problem is don't buy this kind of lan card or maybe create a list of cards that gives this problem. Anyway, I am not connected with the project anymore, just lurking here to be updated with whats the latest. regards! jbarry On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 6:16 AM, Jim Kronebusch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 >
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