Hello list, I'm having serious trouble with the following config: * asus A8V mobo - bios 1007 - * athlon 64 3500 (90nm) * 2*512Mb ram (3-3-3-8) * system disc on u320scsi (tekram dc390u4b/w card) maxtor 15k atlas 36GB * 3 data disks (maxtor ide 120GB) on hdb,hdc,hdd * no overclocking or special settings * suse 9.2 x86_64 with latest patches * marvell (on board) gigabit chip (sk98lin driver), connected to a dlink gigabit switch (dgs-1008d); At the present time, the purpose of this machine is to be tested before going into production. Here are the symptoms: - the system totally hangs when the vsftpd server (started thru xinetd) is called from the outside (32 bits suse9.2 boxes); reset is the only solution... - Nothing in /var/log/messages and no crash dump anywhere on disk - I've removed vsftpd and installed pure-ftpd instead -> This time, ftp transfers are ok (no more freeze) - Started nfs server on the box and created a share; when I try to mount the nfs share from a remote 32 bits box (asus A7n8x with marvell gigabit chip), the 64 bits system is again totally frozen ! Except that, the system is running like a race car (no network problem when I initiate network from the box - internet browsing is perfect)! Any suggestion, experience, clue, tip, etc... is welcome, 'cause I'm stuck ! cheers, fabrice
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 09:14:36PM +0100, fabrice piccini wrote:
Here are the symptoms: - the system totally hangs when the vsftpd server (started thru xinetd) is called from the outside (32 bits suse9.2 boxes); reset is the only solution... - Nothing in /var/log/messages and no crash dump anywhere on disk - I've removed vsftpd and installed pure-ftpd instead -> This time, ftp transfers are ok (no more freeze) - Started nfs server on the box and created a share; when I try to mount the nfs share from a remote 32 bits box (asus A7n8x with marvell gigabit chip), the 64 bits system is again totally frozen !
Except that, the system is running like a race car (no network problem when I initiate network from the box - internet browsing is perfect)!
Any suggestion, experience, clue, tip, etc... is welcome, 'cause I'm stuck !
Sounds like a problem with sendfile() in the network card (that is used by vsftpd and samba, but not proftpd) I would plug in a different network card and see if that works stable. -Andi
Andi Kleen wrote:
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 09:14:36PM +0100, fabrice piccini wrote:
Here are the symptoms: - the system totally hangs when the vsftpd server (started thru xinetd) is called from the outside (32 bits suse9.2 boxes); reset is the only solution... - Nothing in /var/log/messages and no crash dump anywhere on disk - I've removed vsftpd and installed pure-ftpd instead -> This time, ftp transfers are ok (no more freeze) - Started nfs server on the box and created a share; when I try to mount the nfs share from a remote 32 bits box (asus A7n8x with marvell gigabit chip), the 64 bits system is again totally frozen !
Except that, the system is running like a race car (no network problem when I initiate network from the box - internet browsing is perfect)!
Any suggestion, experience, clue, tip, etc... is welcome, 'cause I'm stuck !
Sounds like a problem with sendfile() in the network card (that is used by vsftpd and samba, but not proftpd)
I would plug in a different network card and see if that works stable.
-Andi
well Andi, -disabled the onboard nic (marvell/yukon gigabit) -plugged a dlink dge550t gigabit (dl2k driver) nic -> nfs is running ok now... still have to test with vsftpd, but it seems you were right... gonna test it a bit harder later... anyway, thanks a lot fabrice
-disabled the onboard nic (marvell/yukon gigabit) -plugged a dlink dge550t gigabit (dl2k driver) nic
-> nfs is running ok now... still have to test with vsftpd, but it seems you were right... gonna test it a bit harder later...
You can test the builtin NIC again with the next (not yet released) YOU update kernel. It will have one fix for sk98lin that may help. No timeframe yet for its release though. -Andi
Andi Kleen wrote:
Sounds like a problem with sendfile() in the network card (that is used by vsftpd and samba, but not proftpd)
I would plug in a different network card and see if that works stable.
-Andi
Andi, vsftpd and nfs server are ok with a dlink gigabit nic. thanks a lot ! fabrice
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