Hi,
The r8169 driver seems not to be able to handle high loads?
On a dual Athlon 2600+ MP with 2GB RAM, and nothing else running.
I'm doing:
nc -l -p 12345|buffer|cpio -iuvmdB
On the other machine, also with a gigabit card, I'm doing:
find .|cpio -o -Hnewc -B|nc 192.168.111.1 12345
It works fine- for about 10 minutes- then, suddenly one of 3 things happens-
even if I stop the high-throughput transfer and quiescse everything.....
- Pings to the router take 9000ms instead of <1 ms (ifconfig down/up fixes it)
- or, it completely stops working, but ifconfig down/up makes it work again
- or, if iptables is natting, sometimes itg completely crashdump oopses
None of these problems occurs using the other NIC, an eepro100 or something.
Should I just give these cards away and forget I ever heard of RealTeK?
Is it known that this driver, or this card, or the comgination, is unstable?
Note, I have another machine using r8169, with some other OS- it doesn't fail.
-Tom
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