Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 8 Jun 2009 09:40:38 -0700 | From | "Matt Carlson" <> | Subject | Re: tg3 stops working when NFS is involved |
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On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 10:18:52PM -0700, Christian Kujau wrote: > On Sun, 7 Jun 2009, Christian Kujau wrote: > > anything else - so, I figure it's not a client problem. And I'm not sure > > if it's NFS problem either, because restarting the NFS server doesn't do > > anything, I really have to rmmod/modprobe the tg3 module. OTOH, I cannot > > reproduce this without NFS: running e.g. iperf (TCP, UDP) did not trigger > > it. > > Just tested with Samba - after a few megabytes of transmitted data, tg3 stops > working, with no messages printed in the kernel log :-\ > > I don't know why iperf does not trigger it though....
Hi Christian. This seems to be a common problem with the 5906 on some notebooks. The word on the street is that turning sg off through ethtool seems to avoid the problem. While I dig deeper into this problem, you could try that and see if it helps you.
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