On 9 February 2012 18:59, Jeff Siddall <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/09/2012 12:30 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: >> >> Is anyone else seeing machines lockup with kernel-2.6.32-220? On one >> machine (Dell PowerEdge SC1435 Dual Opteron 2384) we've seen it lockup >> pretty consistently. Moving back to 2.6.32-131.21.1.el6.x86_64 appears >> to have resolved it. > > > Yes, the 2.6.32-220 series seems to have all sorts of issues. > > Do you happen to be running an RealTek 816x ethernet chip? > > I discovered the hard way that the r8169 driver in the SL6 > 2.6.32-220.2.1.el6.x86_64 kernel if running at 1000 Mbps caused my system > began freezing frequently after upgrading to this kernel when network > activity got high. TUV has a bug report about this already. > > Installing the driver off the Realtek site seems to have solved it for now > but it was a pain to track that down. > > Jeff
May I suggest, to you, the ELRepo Project [1] and the kmod-r8168 package [2] ? Alan. [1] http://elrepo.org [2] http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-r8168
