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Re: machine hangs with kernel-2.6.32-220
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Alan Bartlett <[log in to unmask]>
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Alan Bartlett <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 9 Feb 2012 19:07:16 +0000
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On 9 February 2012 18:59, Jeff Siddall <[log in to unmask]> 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

May I suggest, to you, the ELRepo Project [1] and the kmod-r8168 package [2] ?

Alan.

[1] http://elrepo.org
[2] http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-r8168

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