Alexander Puchmayr schrieb: > Hi there! > > My freshly setup homeserver has serious stability problem, which make the > the machine absolutely unuseable as home server. > [...] > > The problem is, when I copy large amount of data via nfs to the server, then > the logs get filled with entries like this: > [...] > > Sometimes its kswap0, nfsd, swapper, and a lot of other progs causing it. > > However, the systems runs without any problem until it has enough physical > memory. If I copy larger amounts of data (e.g. typical dvd-iso images of > ~4GB), then the log gets filled. Today's output was >65MB :-( > So far, I think these messages are just annoying but do no further harm. > > The second problem is that the network controler (rtl8169) seems to timeout > on TX, which is very bad if it happens during renewing your dhcp-lease :-( > the message looks like > [...] > > I don't know whether the first issue has anything todo with the second one. > > The worst thing however is an occasional freeze of the whole system, which > happens very likely when there is high network load over nfs. If that > happens, I have a blank console, no network, no keyboard, nothing. Not even > sysrq seems to work, which makes it pretty hard to tell what has happened. > After resetting the machine, there is nothing suspicious in the logs (it > just ends). > > Does anyone have suggestions? >
Do you have a spare network adapter, maybe an older 100MBit PCI card? Maybe we should rule out a hardware fault on your ethernet chipset first.
