Linux choking on large files

[Brian Witowski]

I will look at that.  I believe I have a Kingston in there, which uses the
Intel chip set.

Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chong Yu Meng [mailto:chongym at cymulacrum.net]
> Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 8:52 AM
> To: linux-users at linux-sxs.org
> Subject: Re: Linux choking on large files
>
>
> 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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