On Thu, 9 Feb 2012, Jeff Siddall wrote:

> On 02/09/2012 12:30 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>> Is anyone else seeing machines lockup with kernel-2.6.32-220? On one
>> machine (Dell PowerEdge SC1435 Dual Opteron 2384) we've seen it lockup
>> pretty consistently. Moving back to 2.6.32-131.21.1.el6.x86_64 appears
>> to have resolved it.
>
> Yes, the 2.6.32-220 series seems to have all sorts of issues.
>
> Do you happen to be running an RealTek 816x ethernet chip?
>
> I discovered the hard way that the r8169 driver in the SL6 
> 2.6.32-220.2.1.el6.x86_64 kernel if running at 1000 Mbps caused my system 
> began freezing frequently after upgrading to this kernel when network 
> activity got high.  TUV has a bug report about this already.
>
> Installing the driver off the Realtek site seems to have solved it for now 
> but it was a pain to track that down.
>
> Jeff
>
This is a bit troublesome since most KVM virtual machines
present an RTL-series network chip to the virtual machine.
Has anyone seen trouble inside virtual machines with this kernel as yet?

Steve Timm

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