bittorrent freezes the system

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 5/8/06, Josenildo Marques <josenildo.marques at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday 08 May 2006 19:44, Lonni J Friedman escreveu o seguinte:
> > On 5/8/06, Josenildo Marques <josenildo.marques at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Monday 08 May 2006 19:30, Lonni J Friedman escreveu o seguinte:
> > > > Try running:
> > > > ethtool -s eth0 duplex full
> > >
> > > The command was accepted.
> >
> > ok, so what does "ethtool eth0" show?
>
> # ethtool eth0
> Settings for eth0:
>         Supported ports: [ TP MII ]
>         Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
>                                 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
>         Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
>         Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
>                                 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
>         Advertised auto-negotiation: No
>         Speed: 100Mb/s
>         Duplex: Full
>         Port: MII
>         PHYAD: 32
>         Transceiver: internal
>         Auto-negotiation: off
>         Supports Wake-on: pumbg
>         Wake-on: d
>         Current message level: 0x00000007 (7)
>         Link detected: yes

ok, you're at 100M/full now, which might be better.  Does the problem
still reproduce?

>
> > > > is BT causing the lockup immediately, or after some period of time?
> > >
> > > After some period of time...
> >
> > Why do you think that BT is causing the problem?
>
> It only happens after BT is fired up. I have left the system running for a
> long while and nothing went wrong. However, when BT is running, it seemed to
> take some ten minutes or so for the system to lock up.


>
> Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 20 bytes.
> BIOS Information
>         Vendor: Award Software, Inc.
>         Version: ASUS A7S333 ACPI BIOS REVISION 1004
>         Release Date: 08/28/2002
>         Address: 0xF0000
>         Runtime Size: 64 kB
>         ROM Size: 256 kB
>
> That would be a challenge :-)
> I've never done it before.

1006 seems to be the latest version.


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