No Kerneld logfile. No kerneld. No kmod. I don't use dynamic module
loading. All modules here are loaded at boot time by insmod and
remain loaded. Soon I'll put all the modules back into the kernel.
>
> I've tracked this to high ethernet traffic blowing out the ethpro100
> driver, getting it into a state from which it can't recover. It's been
> there a *long* time, but got *really* bad in 96-pre1 and 96, although I
> can't try 97 until tomorrow sometime... unless I build and boot from
> home tonite (I hate doing this because if the boot hangs, it's a 20+
> mile drive in to my office to unhang it..)
>
Only one Intel NIC and that's on a low-traffic system as I had the same
troubles with the driver as did you. No Ethernet hangs at all.
>
> >
> > 2. On 2.1.96/7 the system will hang *hard* during a tape backup to
> > the SCSI tapes. This also happens 100% of the time on the units with
> > tape drives. (Also doesn't matter whether the drive being backed up
> > is local or on another machine on the net. All tapes are on
> > BusLogic BT930 controllers of various vintages. I did move one to
> > my remaining Adaptec controller but it does the same thing but much
> > further into the tape.
> >
>
> SCSI has a definite problem in 2.1.96. I found I could not copy a large
> file from one SCSI drive to another (large=200-500mb) without the machine
> hanging *hard*. I backed up to 2.1.85 (the only older kernel I happened
> to have saved in a handy place) and the SCSI copies went perfectly with
> no problems at all. So something is "up" in 96 for certain, at least with
> the combination of the bt958 SCSI and etherexpress Pro 100 ethernet
> card. Sendmail would forward me a few email messages, it would hang. I'd
> try to ftp a 20mb file from one machine to my quad processor (on a
> switched hub which provides good thruput) and it would hang... And then
> I found I couldn't even copy files from one drive to another reliably...
>
Agreed. And it continues into 2.1.97. I just hung the system *hard*
by copying a 19M log file.
>
>
>
> > As noted, this symptom began, (I think) at 2.1.96 but I'll have to
> > verify this as most backups have been made on a non-intel machine over
> > the net since 2.1.88. I did a restore of about 200M of files on this
> > machine under 2.1.95 without incident.
> >
>
-bb
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