[ale] Mysterious hang

[James P. Kinney III]

On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 11:46 -0500, Jonathan Rickman wrote:
> > I had a similar issue thatIi mitigated by installing a different network
> > card. I seem to recall the net chip was in close proximity to the perc
> > controller power access. When the system was loaded up on a big network
> > transfer that was doing heavy disk access, the lockup was frequent, but
> > a certainty. By disabling the onboard NIC and using a pci slot NIC the
> > problem went away. I suspect it was a power distribution issue but did
> > not chase it down.
> 
> Yep. That's about the size of it. Unfortunately, we had/have no
> available slots to use.

Bummer. Time to start offloading the service from that system.

Hmm. a thought. Force the NIC into half-duplex mode. That will reduce
it's power usage at the expense of traffic speed. But running slow is
faster than not running at all.

Big fan on the chipset? Cooler components use less power.

Still could be an IRQ conflict. I don't have access to the system I had
the problem with so I can't test.
> 
> --
> Jonathan
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
-- 
James P. Kinney III          \Changing the mobile computing world/
CEO & Director of Engineering \          one Linux user         /
Local Net Solutions,LLC        \           at a time.          /
770-493-8244                    \.___________________________./
http://www.localnetsolutions.com

GPG ID: 829C6CA7 James P. Kinney III (M.S. Physics)
<jkinney at localnetsolutions.com>
Fingerprint = 3C9E 6366 54FC A3FE BA4D 0659 6190 ADC3 829C 6CA7
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part