bittorrent freezes the system

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 5/8/06, Josenildo Marques <josenildo.marques at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday 08 May 2006 18:32, Lonni J Friedman escreveu o seguinte:
> > On 5/8/06, Josenildo Marques <josenildo.marques at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Monday 08 May 2006 18:14, Lonni J Friedman escreveu o seguinte:
> > > > > > Are you really on a 10M/half duplex network?
> > > > >
> > > > > Well, it's an ADSL connection and the IP address changes every time
> > > > > it connects to my ISP...
> > > >
> > > > That might explain 10Mb, but not the half duplex.  Have you tried
> > > > forcing it to full duplex?
> > >
> > > You got me there... I have no idea how I can change that.
> > > Could you help me ?
> >
> > ethtool should let you set the duplex setting.  what kind of NIC are you
> > using?
>
> I don't know exactly what you mean...I had to google a bit :-)
> And tried the commands below...
> The network card is
> May  8 14:51:59 localhost kernel: eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xd0834000,
> 00:08:54:25:9d:b2, IRQ 16

I've got the same one in my system at home, and i've never had problems with BT.

>
> # ifconfig eth0
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:08:54:25:9D:B2
>           inet6 addr: fe80::208:54ff:fe25:9db2/64 Scope:Link
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:7035 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:6491 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:6789791 (6.4 MiB)  TX bytes:908291 (887.0 KiB)
>           Interrupt:16 Base address:0xe000

Try running:
ethtool -s eth0 duplex full

is BT causing the lockup immediately, or after some period of time?

also, what kind of motherboard are you using?  did you verify that
you're using the latest BIOS?


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