Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 10 Jun 2004 23:12:17 +0200 | | From | Pavel Machek <> | | Subject | Re: Dealing with buggy hardware (was: b44 and 4g4g) |
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Hi!
> > This should hit machines with 2GB ram too, right? > > Is it possible to find if it hits me? I get hard lockups on > > 2GB machine with b44, but they take ~5min.. few hours to > > reproduce... > > > > It seems to me like this should hit very quickly. > > -- > > 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms > > > Yikes! > > With the 4:4 VM split it definately is instantaneous with > 1GB of memory, I > triggered it with 1.25G myself and never noticed anything wrong with just > 1GB (allocation starts from the top it seems). With the standard 1:3 split I > don't think anything > 1GB ever gets used for skbuffs, but maybe there > are circumstances where this can happen?
Okay, this is probably other problem. When the bug hit, what are the symptoms?
> (Or the issue isn't fully understood yet, figuring out what breaks and what > doesn't was basically just trial and error :-/ )
Can you try the driver from broadcom? bcom4400, or how is it called. Its extremely ugly, but might get this kind of stuff right...
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