-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 thus Martin Jungowski spake: > If it helps I'm experiencing a *very* similar problem with all Atom N270 > based company netbooks (Lenovo S10e) with openSUSE 11.2 and Kernel 2.6.31, > as well as openSUSE 11.1 and Kernel 2.6.27. Putting load on the NIC works > fine until I start rsync. Literally everything else allows me to put load > on it - ftp, scp, downloading large files via HTTP, copying via NFS or > SMB, etc. But as soon as I start rsync it locks up. For me it dies on any kind of traffic, not just rsync. I even saw this fetching ISOs using FTP. The machine just died (network-wise; I don't have console on this machine in the data centre, but I do have a machine of this type here in the office, so I could build a test setup with KVM). On the machine that runs stable for weeks now # uptime 09:51:33 up 47 days, 47 min, 1 user, load average: 0.14, 0.11, 0.09 I've got TOR running, which uses a sustained bandwidth of about three MBit (which is not that much, it had about ten MBit for quite a while with an additional FreeNet daemon running). > It doesn't even start > to transfer anything - the NIC instantly dies and more often than not > takes the entire system down with it. Every now and then instead of a full > lockup I only get a dead NIC. Killing the rsync process hard (-9) and > restarting the network often helps. > > I realize that this is a very different software environment but I was > about to try CentOS on that baby next. I'll try the noapic option when I > get back to my office but it's interesting how so different environments > seem to produce similar errors. I guess what I'm trying to say is that > it's probably not a CentOS-specific issue we're dealing with here. > > Martin Timo -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFLn0cMfg746kcGBOwRAgQ4AKCBQGXz3lp+6UdPsUd+GR6RqjJAzgCgr4tB qRwPowIh8EyVX4JppTIpmZk= =qybD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----