On Thursday 15 September 2011 02:03:32 Francois Romieu wrote: > Michael Brade : > [...] > > > ok, good news: I did not experience any freeze anymore even though I > > transfered 60 GB. And I applied both of your patches and > > > > - if (status & RxFOVF) { > > - rtl8169_schedule_work(dev, > > rtl8169_reset_task); - > > dev->stats.rx_fifo_errors++; > > - } > > It should not be necessary to remove this part : the status mask is > supposed to take care of it. One of my patches is wrong if this part > needs to go away. ok, I only removed it because you told me so the first time. > [...] > > > so yes but what do you mean with "no real network traffic"? I still get > > 100 MB/s. > > 100 MB/s as 100 Mbyte/s on a gigabit link or 100 Mbit/s on a {gigabit / > fast} ethernet link ? 100 Mbytes on a gigabit link, so almost 100% usage (with ups and downs, of course; maybe between 90 MB/s and 112 MB/s). thanks, Michael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html