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Re: Kernel OOPS with 1.2.11
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen C. Tweedie)
Wed Aug 2 06:43:08 1995
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 95 13:18 BST
To: cjwoods@gigotech.net
Cc: niemidc@clark.net, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950729233116.3661D-100000@angus.gigotech.net> (message from Chris Woods on Sat, 29 Jul 1995 23:35:44 -0400 (EDT))
From: sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Stephen C. Tweedie)
Chris Woods <cjwoods@gigotech.net> writes:
> On Wed, 26 Jul 1995, David C. Niemi wrote:
>> So it is quite possible to have long uptimes on NE2000s, at least with
>> newer kernels.
> And without major, significant network load. Well, maybe the NE2k drivers
> are stable in 1.3.x, but since all my machines are mission-critical (we
> lose machines, 4000+ paying customers don't get service) I cannot afford
> to run 1.3.x.
There's no doubt that early 1.2 kernels had big problems with their
ne2k code. However, 1.2.10 and later do seem to have cured the
troubles I was experiencing.
Earlier kernels could be brought to their knees by any sustained
traffic. The best test was to do a large rdist (we were trying to do
150-200MB rdists quite regularly at one point); the ne2k machines
would not survive more than about 10 minutes of this, usually. We
haven't seen a single ne2k hang since 1.2.10 (yet...).
Cheers,
Stephen.
--
Stephen Tweedie <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
Department of Computer Science, Edinburgh University, Scotland.
