>>I think it's the same problem I had and it's not the >>network problem. It's about a problem with system on IDE >>drives. After I switched to a SCSI disk for boot, swap and >>root the problem disappeared completely. >> >>The fact that the problem doesn't occur with 10 Mbps >>connections only shows that slow ether cannot create enough >>stress for the problem to manifest itself. It's some >>racing condition in UDMA driver. If you disable DMA on >>your system IDE drive you won't have the problem but the >>performance really sucks. > >Which IDE chipset? We ran our network on a machine runnning >essentially 9.0 (cooker but with 2.4.19-16mdk kernel, and most >server components and libraries haven't changed) on a 120GB >IDE disk for a week with no problems, with dma enabled. So >it might be chipset specific.
Good question! The chipset in my case was i845 from Intel. I had it running for a month in a sandbox with only a couple of clients, but when I eventually took it into production and added 40 clients it would simply freeze from time to time necessitating a cold start. >Maybe if you two can log a bugzilla or Mandrakeexpert entry, >and you may be able to try the kernel update that should be >coming and see if it addresses the problem. My distro is SuSE 8.1, but 2.4.19 is 2.4.19 is 2.4.19, right? I'd never go back to IDE even if I knew the problem is solved. At my home I can use anything, it doesn't matter. But a file server may be privileged with a couple of decent SCSI drives if you're serious. And besides, 15 Krpm LVD disks are a lot faster than 7200 IDEs and I can string many more on the same wire. _____________________________________________________________ Get 25MB, POP3, Spam Filtering with LYCOS MAIL PLUS for $19.95/year. http://login.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus&ref=lmtplus -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
