Bug 83592
| Summary: | (NET TG3)SuperMicro P4DL6 locks up on network data transfers | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | bil_hendrix |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Jeff Garzik <jgarzik> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.3 | CC: | alan, bil_hendrix, peterm |
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2003-06-09 13:51:15 UTC | Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Hopefully resolved in current errata. Can you confirm it is ok for you now ? Yes, fixed. I believe it was RH kernel 2.4.18-24 that did the trick for me. You can squish this bug. Thanks for following up, - bill |
Description of problem: I have a SuperMicro P4DL6 dual-Xeon server with RedHat 7.3 that is locking up on me, while doing network data transfer tests (on either the gigabit or 100baseT interfaces). At the suggestion of someone who encountered similar probs, I installed an updated RedHat smp kernel 2.4.18-19.7.x, appended "noapic" to lilo, and updated the AMI BIOS to Rev. 1.1, using the following settings in the new BIOS (after loading the optimal defaults): CHIPSET - Mem Timing -> Auto - MPS 1.4 Support -> Enabled - Hyperthreading -> Enabled - Watchdog -> Disabled PCI PnP - PnP O/S -> No - Reset Config Data -> Yes - Allocate IRQ to PCI VGA -> No - PCI IDE Busmastering -> Disabled POWER - ACPI Aware O/S -> No - Power Management -> Disabled but I am still experiencing lock-ups, when doing file transfers b/t two of these identical servers. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.4.18-3smp and 2.4.18-19.7.xsmp How reproducible: Every time. Steps to Reproduce: 1. network two p4dl6 servers together 2. continuously stream data over a random unused port from one machine to the other (i am using port 2000). 3. wait. before my kernel/bios updates, it took about a week to lock up, and after the updates, almost instantly. Actual results: One of the two machines always locks up, and never the other one. sometimes, it is the receiving server that locks up, and sometimes it is the one initiating the data transfer. Expected results: no locking up! Additional info: I expect this is a motherboard/serverworks chipset issue, but supermicro has no solutions, apart from the latest BIOS update, which i've already installed. i am hoping others have experienced this w/7.3 and have come up w/workarounds.