On 02/09/2012 12:03 PM, Steven Timm wrote:
> 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?

Really?  I'm using virtio drivers:

00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Red Hat, Inc Virtio network device
00:04.0 SCSI storage controller: Red Hat, Inc Virtio block device

Which I would think would be the common thing to do.

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