Linux choking on large files

[Chong Yu Meng]

Are you using an Intel NIC ? I had that same problem shortly before the 
NIC died !

Regards,
pascal chong



Brian Witowski wrote:

>I recently began having problems transferring large files to my COL 2.4.18
>kernel and Samba 2.22.
>
>I first noticed the problem when a large email attachment got hung in the
>queue.  I tried to flush it but it was locked for sending.  (I use my server
>as a mail relay for my network, along with fetchmail and procmail).  When I
>tried to flush it, I would temporarily lose network access to my server.  No
>Samba, SSH, or Webmin.  Then it would start working again.
>
>Later on I was attempting to copy a 45MB file to the server and I lost all
>connectivity.  Once the copy errored out and I canceled the copy, the
>network came back.  The only errors I have found were on the console of the
>server:
>
>hda: irq timeout : Status=0xD0 {Busy}
>IDE0: reset: success
>
>In addition I saw this once:
>
>ll_rw_block: device 03:03: only 512-char blocks implemented (1152).
>
>Suspecting a hard drive problem, I changed to runlevel 1, then dismounted
>the partitions and did an e2fsck -c on them.   It found and fixed a few
>problems, which I suspected it would since it had been hard booted a couple
>times in the last year due to power failures etc.
>
>Also, I ran some low-level hardware diagnostics on the hard drives and they
>came up clean.
>
>Any ideas what may be causing this issue?  The logs are clean.
>
>Brian
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