helped wanted with ethernet problem.

[Gabriel Kenter]

Hi John,

could you be more specific regarding the nic (network interface card)  
you use ?

Regards,


Gabriel Kenter

On 02/13/2004 05:16:54 AM, John McBride wrote:
> Every once in awhile my work machine crashes fairly hard. It has the  
> home directory on nfs and if the network drops I have to reset the  
> box to recover.
> 
> In /var/log/messages:
> 
> Feb 12 16:13:41 ws12 kernel: eth0: Too much work at interrupt,
> IntrStatus=0x0040.
> Feb 12 16:13:45 ws12 kernel: nfs: server lnx-fs not responding,
> still trying
> Feb 12 16:13:54 ws12 last message repeated 6 times
> Feb 12 16:14:45 ws12 ypbind[773]: broadcast: RPC: Timed out.
> 
> dmesg has this to say about the card:
> 
> 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.26
> PCI: Enabling device 00:09.0 (0004 -> 0007)
> PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:09.0
> PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 00:04.2
> PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 00:0d.0
> divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
> eth0: SMC1211TX EZCard 10/100 (RealTek RTL8139) at 0xd09c7000,
> 00:e0:xx:xx:xx:xx
> , IRQ 5
> eth0:  Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139 rev K'
> divert: freeing divert_blk for eth0
> ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
> 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.26
> PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:09.0
> PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 00:04.2
> PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 00:0d.0
> divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
> eth0: SMC1211TX EZCard 10/100 (RealTek RTL8139) at 0xd09d3000,
> 00:e0:xx:xx:xx:xx
> , IRQ 5
> eth0:  Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139 rev K'
> eth0: link up, 10Mbps, half-duplex, lpa 0x0000
> ip_conntrack version 2.1 (2047 buckets, 16376 max) - 292 bytes per  
> conntrack
> 
> Does "too much work" mean the system is "exceptionally busy"? I've  
> been doing resource limit and performance testing and have been  
> running 90% CPU and surfing out into swap pretty heavily in recent  
> weeks, although it seems to do this even when the system is fairly  
> idle.
> 
> It's happened maybe 8-10 times since fc1 came out.
> 
> TIA,
> John
> 
> 
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