On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 07:50:40PM +0100, Jarek Poplawski wrote:Ok - that'd be with or without MMAP enabled? (note that so-far, without MMAP I'm not seeing any errors - throughput is running about half what I was seeing with MMAP enabled (before crashing that is). CPU is also way busier (also to be expected). One other observation - I had been seeing lots of DNS errors - IPV6 related format errors I really didn't think much of it as they were mostly .ru and seemed spam-related, but now I don't see any. Haven't updated bind; doubt the world has changed - so perhaps this is related to the network issue.
Another things IMHO worth to try: a sky2 module parameterGoing to rerun with these patches and with and without MMAP. WillIf MMAP then some "alternative" too. But first no MMAP.
also retry both with jumbo frames if possible.
"disable_msi=1", and CONFIG_DMAR off.
Jarek P.