[geeks] Well, THAT was a setback

[Patrick Finnegan]

On Sunday 17 January 2010, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> I've heard people talk about the Linux TCP stack falling down under
> heavy load, but never had it happen to me.  Until today.

What hardware, and what distro/kernel?

Any problems I've had with networking on Linux have been with a 
particular ethernet driver or sometimes the ethernet chipset.  For 
example, Intel E1000s in Dell 1850-era machines die under load and with 
jumbo frames, and the BNX2 chipsets in HP DL380 G5s under recent RHEL4 
kernels like to lock up a lot.

Pat
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