From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 10 May 2001 17:24:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 10 May 2001 17:24:44 -0400 Received: from dewey.mindlink.net ([204.174.16.4]:13068 "EHLO dewey.paralynx.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 10 May 2001 17:24:39 -0400 Subject: Alpha SMP/Network performance problem with vanilla 2.4.4 From: Jay Thorne To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain X-Mailer: Evolution/0.10 (Preview Release) Date: 10 May 2001 14:24:37 -0700 Message-Id: <989529877.7411.2.camel@gracie.userfriendly.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I'm working on a problem on alpha SMP on the AS4100 (Rawhide) machine. Under SMP, with heavy network activity. With an inbound and outbound ping flood running, after about 500,000 packets, it just dies. Console dead, no response. For about a minute. Then, sometimes, the machine comes back. Anything I can instrument? to help? Alt-sysrq, though enabled, does not seem to work on these machine's consoles. -- Jay Thorne Manager, Systems & Technology, UserFriendly Media, Inc.