On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 at 2:35pm, Ajay Shekhawat wrote
> I've successfully patched the 2.4.3 kernel with these patches (almost
> everything
> worked, except for a few minor rejects).
>
> So far, it seems to be OK. NFS serving of XFS works, and I'm beating on it
> heavily.
>
> The reason for the switch: I'd heard that the 3C905B ethernet card is better
> supported in 2.4.3. I've been having problems with this card under a heavy
> load; I just thought I'd try out the new kernel and see.
Are you running on any SMP machines? I had to add the 'noapic' option to
my server running the 2.4.2-xfs kernel, otherwise eth0 disappeared due to
lost interrupts after very little activity.
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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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