On 02/09/2012 11:59 AM, 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

Nope:

01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5721 Gigabit 
Ethernet PCI Express (rev 21)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5721 Gigabit 
Ethernet PCI Express (rev 21)


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