If it helps I'm experiencing a *very* similar problem with all Atom N270
based company netbooks (Lenovo S10e) with openSUSE 11.2 and Kernel 2.6.31,
as well as openSUSE 11.1 and Kernel 2.6.27. Putting load on the NIC works
fine until I start rsync. Literally everything else allows me to put load
on it - ftp, scp, downloading large files via HTTP, copying via NFS or
SMB, etc. But as soon as I start rsync it locks up. It doesn't even start
to transfer anything - the NIC instantly dies and more often than not
takes the entire system down with it. Every now and then instead of a full
lockup I only get a dead NIC. Killing the rsync process hard (-9) and
restarting the network often helps.
I realize that this is a very different software environment but I was
about to try CentOS on that baby next. I'll try the noapic option when I
get back to my office but it's interesting how so different environments
seem to produce similar errors. I guess what I'm trying to say is that
it's probably not a CentOS-specific issue we're dealing with here.
Martin
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Rieke Computersysteme GmbH
Hellerholz 5
D-82061 Neuried
Email: martin@xxxxxx
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