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From: Sven Heinicke <sven@research.nj.nec.com>
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Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 11:14:14 -0500 (EST)
To: Nathan Poznick <poznick@conwaycorp.net>
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Subject: Re: 2.4.16 freezed up with eepro100 module
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Nathan Poznick writes:
 > Thus spake Sven Heinicke:
 > > 
 > > The 2.4.16 kernel finally makes my clients happy with memory
 > > management.  The systems that froz up is a Dell of some sort or other
 > > with two 1Ghz Pentium IIIs and 4G of memory.  But, now I seems to be
 > > having ethernet problems.  With and eepro100 card:
 > 
 > I've encountered the same problem, with the same hardware setup (I
 > believe it's a Dell 2400, or something like that), on 2.4.14+xfs.  For
 > me it didn't lock up the entire machine however, it only seemed to
 > kill the network - I was able to reboot the machine cleanly once I got
 > to the console. (message from yesterday with the subject 'failed
 > assertion in tcp.c')  I too, am open to suggestions :-)
 > 

I suspect that I would of been able to reboot it if I was at work in
the middle of the night.  I am unable to try older kernels as until
2.4.16 I had memory issues.  The process that was doing so much eth0
is ran for like 3 days before the freeze.

   Sven