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Subject:    Re: [Beowulf] Re: Bugfix for Broadcom NICs losing connectivity
From:       Rahul Nabar <rpnabar () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-06-29 20:37:47
Message-ID: AANLkTinTZqcQyBiyYSxeZYCE6s5XYqzcT6gWL63rGXJV () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 3:39 AM, Tina Friedrich
<Tina.Friedrich@diamond.ac.uk> wrote:
> We've had that happen on some of our servers. Currently using the
> disable_msi workaround, which seems to have stopped it. I believe there's
> supposed to be a fix in the latest Red Hat kernel but we haven't really
> tested that yet.

I saw the exact same symptoms as Tina. Not a hard-correlation but I
mostly saw it during periods of high NFS loads. The disable_msi
workaround does work like a charm.

Before that my only option was to log in locally via console and then
do a ifdown; ifup on the interface.

-- 
Rahul
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