Re: Kernel 2.6.13 BUG tg3.c:2805 = crash (this one isn't tainted)

[Chris Wright]

* Andy Stewart (andystewart@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> I think I have an idea of what I can do to cause this to occur:
> 
> 1) Run setiathome(boinc) so both CPUs are at 100% (nice) utilization
> 2) Run rsync to sync a few GB between machines on a 100 Mb ethernet network
> 3) Notice puzzlingly slow interactive response time with high (8-10)
> load average.
> 4) Click the mouse a bunch of times here, there, everywhere in
> frustration with 3(above)
> 5) I caused the crash within about 5 minutes.  I may be able to
> reproduce it - not sure.

Might help to copy netdev on the report.  Seems you've had a bit of luck
in reproducing.  Any chance on narrowing down to last known good kernel?
There's been a fair bit of change in that driver between 2.6.12 and
2.6.13.

thanks,
-chris
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