Re: Fw: Bug: PPP dropouts in >=2.6.16

2006-05-02 Thread Nuri Jawad
Good evening, Bugzilla entry on this is now here: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6484 Note the interesting fact that kernel mode PPPoE is not affected. Thus it could also be a bug in Roaring Penguin's PPPoE program. The problem is that all other user space implementations seem to b

Re: Fw: Bug: PPP dropouts in >=2.6.16

2006-04-30 Thread Nuri Jawad
On Sun, 30 Apr 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I observed a 1-2 sec stalling behaviour for the complete system every 10 seconds or so _seemingly_ only when my ADSL connection was up. I had that idea too, but that sounds different from what I have here. I have also transfered lots of data at >9

Re: Fw: Bug: PPP dropouts in >=2.6.16

2006-04-30 Thread theosch
> Going back to e100 helped Sorry, I meant: Going back to eepro100 helped - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: Fw: Bug: PPP dropouts in >=2.6.16

2006-04-30 Thread theosch
Maybe this is an issue of the e100 driver? I observed a 1-2 sec stalling behaviour for the complete system every 10 seconds or so _seemingly_ only when my ADSL connection was up. That was after I had changed the ethernet driver for a card _not_ connected to the modem from eepro100 to e100. After

Re: Fw: Bug: PPP dropouts in >=2.6.16 - updates

2006-04-29 Thread Nuri Jawad
Some more info: - turning off Hyper Threading and using a uniprocessor kernel did not improve things - so didn't using 2.6.17rc3, in fact the bug manifested after only 4 minutes with a 43 seconds gap - those kernel debug watchdog routines don't detect anything Going to try kernel PPPoE next

Re: Fw: Bug: PPP dropouts in >=2.6.16

2006-04-28 Thread Nuri Jawad
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Sven Schuster wrote: but don't hold your breath waiting for me, kernel compile takes more than two hours on my box :-) Ouch. Takes 5/7 minutes here on the AMD64 resp. P4. Computer museum? :P Anyhow, I tested PPP for 2.5 hours on the AMD64 the day before yesterday with a b

Re: Fw: Bug: PPP dropouts in >=2.6.16

2006-04-26 Thread Sven Schuster
Hi Andrew, On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 03:07:33PM -0700, Andrew Morton told us: > So there's something in -mm which fixes your kernel? It's usually the > other way around ;) actually this was the first time that I tried a "normal" kernel. I haven't chosen to run -mm because it fixed something for m

Re: Fw: Bug: PPP dropouts in >=2.6.16

2006-04-26 Thread Andrew Morton
Sven Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 02:36:18AM +0200, Nuri Jawad told us: > > Did you create a high load on the system in the manner I described? > > The bug once only appeared after about 6 hours here when line + CPU had > > been mostly idle. But that was the long

Re: Fw: Bug: PPP dropouts in >=2.6.16

2006-04-26 Thread Sven Schuster
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 02:36:18AM +0200, Nuri Jawad told us: > Did you create a high load on the system in the manner I described? > The bug once only appeared after about 6 hours here when line + CPU had > been mostly idle. But that was the longest time between failures. Can you > test with one

Re: Fw: Bug: PPP dropouts in >=2.6.16

2006-04-25 Thread Sven Schuster
Hi, On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 02:36:18AM +0200, Nuri Jawad told us: > >no problems here with pppoe, kernel is 2.6.17-rc1-mm1, ppp 2.4.4-b1. > > Did you create a high load on the system in the manner I described? > The bug once only appeared after about 6 hours here when line + CPU had > been most

Re: Fw: Bug: PPP dropouts in >=2.6.16

2006-04-25 Thread Nuri Jawad
no problems here with pppoe, kernel is 2.6.17-rc1-mm1, ppp 2.4.4-b1. Did you create a high load on the system in the manner I described? The bug once only appeared after about 6 hours here when line + CPU had been mostly idle. But that was the longest time between failures. Can you test with o

Re: Fw: Bug: PPP dropouts in >=2.6.16

2006-04-24 Thread Sven Schuster
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 02:02:59AM +0200, Andi Kleen told us: > On Friday 21 April 2006 19:15, Jesse Brandeburg wrote: > > On 4/21/06, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > We do seem to have had a few reports of ppp regressions around this > > > timeframe. > > > > me too. I couldn

Re: Fw: Bug: PPP dropouts in >=2.6.16

2006-04-21 Thread Andi Kleen
On Friday 21 April 2006 19:15, Jesse Brandeburg wrote: > On 4/21/06, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > We do seem to have had a few reports of ppp regressions around this > > timeframe. > > me too. I couldn't use 2.6.16 at home on my pppoe connected router > because it was so slow.

Re: Fw: Bug: PPP dropouts in >=2.6.16

2006-04-21 Thread Andrew Morton
"Jesse Brandeburg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 4/21/06, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > We do seem to have had a few reports of ppp regressions around this > > timeframe. > > me too. I couldn't use 2.6.16 at home on my pppoe connected router > because it was so slow. I did

Re: Fw: Bug: PPP dropouts in >=2.6.16

2006-04-21 Thread Jesse Brandeburg
On 4/21/06, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We do seem to have had a few reports of ppp regressions around this > timeframe. me too. I couldn't use 2.6.16 at home on my pppoe connected router because it was so slow. I didn't have time to debug. I can probably try patches and provid

Fw: Bug: PPP dropouts in >=2.6.16

2006-04-21 Thread Andrew Morton
We do seem to have had a few reports of ppp regressions around this timeframe. Begin forwarded message: Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 23:28:24 +0200 (CEST) From: Nuri Jawad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Bug: PPP dropouts in >=2.6.16 Good evening, I've recently had pr