Re: [BUG] freeze Alpha ES40 SMP 2.4.4.ac3, another TCP/IP Problem ? ( was 2.4.4 kernel crash , possibly tcp related )

From: Peter Rival (frival@zk3.dec.com)
Date: Thu May 03 2001 - 11:58:32 EST


Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 06:16:02PM +0200, Cabaniols, Sebastien wrote:
> > The only thing that does not work under load is the network.... TCP/IP ?
>
> My alpha is running 2.4.4aa3 under very high load (apache beaten from ab
> in loop via 100mbit switched network [tulip on the alpha] plus cerberus)
> and I didn't had any problem so far (it only deadlocked with OOM after
> one day of day of tux [instead of apache] + cerberus regression testing
> but that's only because of a memleak in tux that I reproduced on x86 too
> it seems)
>

Silly question, Sebastien - when you do a "show config" at the console, how
is your card represented? FWIU, there have been problems with adapters under
load that aren't fully supported by SRM... Just a guess. Could you try this
with a DE600 (Intel) or a DE500 (tulip)?

 - Pete

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