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Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 11:20:56 +1000 From: Adam Nielsen <a.nielsen@...kadi.net> To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> CC: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: Why do programs freeze with big network transfers? >> After a few seconds of data going over the network, X-Windows freezes. No >> screen updates, the mouse cursor won't move, for all intents and purposes the >> system has frozen solid. I'm playing music with XMMS2 and that keeps going, >> but occasionally even that stops too. After a minute (between 45 and 65 >> seconds) everything unfreezes and keeps going as per normal. Less than 10 >> seconds later everything freezes again for another minute! This keeps going >> until the file transfer has finished. > > This rings a bell here, could you try to apply commit > > 482964e56e1320cb7952faa1932d8ecf59c4bf75 > (net: Fix the condition passed to sk_wait_event()) > > This commit was included in 2.6.36, so you could also try 2.6.36.2 > kernel. Just booted into 2.6.36.2 and it looks like the problem has indeed been fixed! I've been able to perform the same transfer that would previously cause a freeze 100% of the time and it went through fine. Many thanks for your help! Cheers, Adam. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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