total lockup in .32 when doing tar over network

Ville Hautamaki (kernel@photon.joensuu.fi)
Mon, 1 Dec 1997 12:46:43 +0200


Hi!

I am just reporting this problem, so please forward any replies
and questions concernin this problem to :
stefan.werner@joensuu.fi

(I loosely translate Stefans bugraport to english ...)
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When doing large tar over network, it shows :

Kernel panic: skput:over: [address]
In swapper task - not syncing

And then linux is completely locked-up.

Kernel is 2.0.32
ethernetcard is 3Com 3c900 Boomerang PCI (In 10Mb/Sec Ethernet)
32Meg's of memory (He said that it could not be that, because there is
much free memory)
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But the ide disks are pretty slow, so my friend thought that maybe disks
cannot keep up with Boomerang and buffer overruns ??

Ville