I'm at my wit's end with this. I run Mandrake 7.0 (2.2.14 with a fair
variety of 7.1 and 7.2 updates) and the latest VMware for one Win32
client program that's not ported to Linux and that I'm reluctant to try
under WINE.
My problem is lockups on eth0 that seem to be triggered by either heavy
network traffic or high CPU load - indicating some sort of timing
problem to me. These only seem to happen when VMware (running W2K Pro as
a client) is running.
I've tried swapping the NIC from a RealTek 8139 to a NetGear FA311 to no
avail so I doubt that it's specifically driver/card related.
I can fix the problem with an 'ifdown eth0 && ifup eth0' but clearly
this isn't a satisfactory solution. The odd thing is that I've been
running this setup for months with minimal problems; it's gradually
deteriorated over time to the point that this system is just about
unusable with VMware up and running.
FWIW smbd is running on the host only, as recommended by VMware, and I
get nothing useful with the new card in the error logs; however, I did
get messages of the form:
Dec 9 16:18:54 ponder kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame, status
2e0088!
from the RealTek, which seems suspicious to say the least.
Any suggestions on how to proceed from here gratefully received :)
Pete Jordan
Possibly useful info:
root@ponder: /var/log # lsmod
Module Size Used by
vmnet 14880 1
vmppuser 5080 0 (unused)
parport_pc 7820 0 [vmppuser]
parport 8316 0 [vmppuser parport_pc]
vmmon 16464 0 (unused)
snd-card-emu10k1 2188 3
snd-emu10k1 20552 0 [snd-card-emu10k1]
snd-pcm 29784 1 [snd-emu10k1]
snd-timer 8256 0 [snd-pcm]
snd-emux-mem 1560 0 [snd-emu10k1]
snd-rawmidi 9720 0 [snd-emu10k1]
snd-ac97-codec 24032 0 [snd-emu10k1]
snd-mixer 23536 1 [snd-emu10k1 snd-ac97-codec]
snd-seq-device 3472 0 [snd-card-emu10k1 snd-rawmidi]
snd 37004 7 [snd-card-emu10k1 snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm
snd-timer snd-emux-mem snd-rawmidi snd-ac97-codec snd-mixer snd-seq-device]
soundcore 3780 2 [snd]
nfs 32064 1 (autoclean)
nfsd 146148 8 (autoclean)
lockd 33480 1 (autoclean) [nfs nfsd]
sunrpc 56868 1 (autoclean) [nfs nfsd lockd]
smbfs 29684 11 (autoclean)
fa311 5164 1 (autoclean)
aic7xxx 111288 0 (unused)
supermount 15144 1 (autoclean)
nls_iso8859-1 2308 1 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 3816 1 (autoclean)
vfat 11164 1 (autoclean)
fat 32832 1 (autoclean) [vfat]
root@ponder: /var/log # cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 9996794 XT-PIC timer
1: 17274 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
3: 236 XT-PIC serial
4: 162734 XT-PIC serial
8: 442218 XT-PIC rtc
10: 1826098 XT-PIC eth0
11: 21 XT-PIC aic7xxx
12: 4292161 XT-PIC EMU10K1
13: 1 XT-PIC fpu
14: 9099945 XT-PIC ide0
15: 1324469 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
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