netdev - Re: 2.6.20->2.6.21 - networking dies after random time

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Message-Id: <JMG6AY$2339D4FEA804188F4C6D4F66006A6BB6@xandmail.com>
Date:	Wed,  8 Aug 2007 10:59:22 +0200
From:	"Jean-Baptiste Vignaud" <vignaud@...dmail.fr>
To:	"jarkao2" <jarkao2@...pl>
Cc:	"cebbert" <cebbert@...hat.com>, "mingo" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"marcin\.slusarz" <marcin.slusarz@...il.com>,
	"tglx" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"shemminger" <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-net" <linux-net@...r.kernel.org>,
	"netdev" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"akpm" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"alan" <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: 2.6.20->2.6.21 - networking dies after random time

> Jean-Baptiste: I'm not sure how much of this testing you can afford?
> If you can spare some time for this and your box isn't for
> 'production' it could be very precious to diagnose such reproducible
> bug.

Well i can continue testing patches for sure.

> Then, I'd have a few suggestions (you could choose any of them) like:
> - trying these last test patches prepared for Marcin, too (but only
> with kernels 2.6.21 - 2.6.23-rc1),

I'v patched 2.6.23-rc2 with those patches yesterday evening, and
launched samba copy. 
Is rc2 ok ?

This morning the network is still up :
RX bytes:279853499958 (260.6 GiB)  TX bytes:7416695531 (6.9 GiB)

Still testing.

> If you would like to read something more about testing (then of
> course my suggestions could occur invalid - I'm a very bad tester
> myself...) you can try this:
> http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/files/handbook/

I'll have a look at the document. 

Jb


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