On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 07:04 -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > On Sat, 28 Feb 2009, Brad wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> On Sat, 28 Feb 2009, Brad wrote: > >> > >>> Hi. I'd like to revisit a problem I put to the mailing list on the <snip> > > I've had another problem with the Realtek network driver ... under network > > load it seemed to miss interrupts and/or pass them to the IDE driver, which > > would print out errors about unexpected/unknown interrupts. I had to take > > IDE out of my kernel. > Correct, buy an Intel 1GBPS PCI-e card, I do for all of my main machines > that do not have Intel NICs, solves the problem. They are $30-40 and then > all of your network issues will be solved. > > > I have a gigabyte X48 board with two of those realtek NICs, and apart from some driver troubles which the r8169 maintainer fixed for me, i've had no issues with it. I suggest contacting the maintainer if you really believe its the NIC and/or driver <snip> > Justin. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html