Re: NIU - Sun Neptune 10g - Transmit timed out reset (2.6.24)

From: Jesper Krogh
Date: Mon May 12 2008 - 02:53:01 EST


David Miller wrote:
From: Jesper Krogh <jesper@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 13:01:08 +0200

Any good suggestions about the "Transmit timed out" messages. It
currently leads to a system that "doesnt die" but doesnt respond within
15 minutes of load of the network adapter.

It's likely some bug in the driver that hangs the card for whatever
reason, which we'll need to work out.

Ok. I have been testing a bit more. It generally works fine, It seems
the "transmit timed out" thing was provoked by dd in the tests, because
it was creating a lot of small requests. (default bs=512).(over NFS).
When the blocksize went up, the problem dissapered. (and the numer of
context-switches went down).

When the blocksize went up, the performance likewise raised to 615MB/s.
I haven't been able to get pass that number.

This is where one of the cpu's are settling at 100% load.

Jesper

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