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Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 15:27:24 -0500 From: Luke Hutchison <luke.hutch@...il.com> To: Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Networking hangs when too many parallel requests are made at once On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com> wrote: > On 11/09/2010 11:04 AM, Luke Hutchison wrote: >> >> On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Luke Hutchison<luke.hutch@...il.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> Since around Linux kernel 2.6.33 or so (but maybe as early as >>> 2.6.31, not sure exactly what version), when restoring a crashed or >>> closed browser session of either Firefox or Chrome where lots of tabs >>> (say 10-40) open simultaneously, the networking stack is brought to >>> its knees -- most or all the tabs eventually time out without data, or >>> a few tabs might get some data and then display a partial web page. > > Have you been able to reproduce this on any other machine? I suspect > it might be an issue with your specific NIC or other hardware. > > At the least, it's not a general problem with opening lots > of TCP connections, as we routinely test with thousands... > > Thanks, > Ben No, I haven't been able to reproduce on any other machine. But it happens on both my wifi NIC and my ethernet NIC in this machine. Thanks, Luke -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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