Comment 82 for bug 661294
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| Adam Bolte (boltronics) wrote Re: System lock-up when receiving large files over a Realtek NIC (big data amount) from NFS server | #82 |
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FWIW, I get this on Debian Wheezy (Testing) running 2.6.38-2-amd64. When I download (but never when I upload) large files (eg. >200Mb movies) from my home file server over Gigabit on one of these Realtek NICs I get a crash - 100% reproducible.
I only just installed Debian because I had Gentoo and thought something was screwy with the video card (using the proprietary nvidia driver) - it crashed every time I played a movie directly from my file share (a Samba server) and I could never figure out why. Imagine my surprise when I still got this using nouveau under Debian! Then I thought it was my overclock. Then my memory. Took me ages to notice that the issue was the NIC!
Gigabyte X58A-UD9, BIOS F4 - has 2 NICs, both unfortunately the same chipset:
Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 06)
As is the case with others here, it's only an issue during Gigabit file transfers. Other NICs seem fine too.