Thanks for the tip, Andrew. However, it didnt seem to work for me. (Although it may have caused it to happen less frequently). Found that I'm still running into the ethernet card time out and hang problem when I booted with noapic. Additionally found: - SMP / non-SMP made no difference - IO_APIC support compile option made no difference - uniproc / multiproc makes no difference - load / size of packet etc also didnt matter - still happens on both tulip, natsemi drivers. I did go back to the 2.2-16 kernel and did not run into the problem - so it is at least a 2.4 kernel issue. Also, I do have 2 network cards in each machine. It does seem to look like an interrupt lost issue (??). thanks, Nivedita Andrew Morton <andrewm@uow.edu.au>@vger.kernel.org on 02/14/2001 05:57:07PM >Nivedita Singhvi wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to run some netperf tests on linux 2.4.0 kernel with >> smp turned on between uniproc pc's as well as netfinity 8 proc >> and 2 proc boxes. Distribution is Red Hat 7.0. >Try adding `noapic' to the LILO boot command. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
