Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Sep 1997 18:46:14 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Beautiful people (and 3c9xx...) |
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Thanks guys. Thanks for all the hard work, comments, and input that culminated in 31pre9.
I was running 30, then 31pre2, on an Alpha Multia, and getting all kinds of unaligned traps, oops, and the like. I installed pre9 two days ago, and haven't had to reboot it since. No dmesg output except a few ICMP redirects. Very happy I have a stable Alpha platform at high loads. You guys are awesome :)
One note, though, pre9's 3c9xx driver (Boomerang) is still unstable. I use it on a news server busy enough to warrant two Ethernet cards, and the 3c9xx is the primary, overloaded, one. I can't run the server 24 hours without transmit buffering problems, eventually leading to a "Aiee scheduling interrupt" error if I don't reboot it.
The alternative Boomerang driver, from Chris ??? if memory serves, works like a charm, and is rock solid at high data rates (including packet loss on the local ethernet). -- Jeff Garzik Quality news feeds News Administrator INN Technical info, Consulting Spinne, Inc. http://www.spinne.com/usenet/
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