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Title: Kernel Oops on Large File Transfers
Post by: Graham on April 01, 2002, 12:23:00 AM

Hi !

Can anyone comment here ?

I have had several Kernel panics as a result of copying large files across from
a Win box to an ibay.

Also, as a result of playing an .AVI (13mb) from an ibay.

I know this doesnt sound good but my box is a IBM-Cyrix 233 on a PC Chips
TX Pro Mobo !

The panics all have referenced Process: smbd

The question is :-

Is Samba not up to it or is it my crap hardware ?

Thanks

Graham

Title: Re: Kernel Oops on Large File Transfers
Post by: Dan G. on April 01, 2002, 01:09:14 AM

I used to stream media off my Pentium 100 running SME 5.0, until I recently replaced it.  It also held up under 10+ hours of rsync transactions without missing a beat, and never had any trouble with Windows sharing.  So, "crap hardware" alone is not the issue :)  It may be something in the Cyrix chip that is not up to the task...

Dan

Title: Re: Kernel Oops on Large File Transfers
Post by: Michael Herger on April 01, 2002, 09:50:30 AM

I doubt it's the processor as I'm currently using a Cyrix 233 (MII/300), too. I have saved CD images up to 725MB on my e-smith box without any problems. But I experienced problems accessing them using a 10MBit nic over a 10/100 switch. With my setup nics caused problems, not the CPU.

Title: Re: Kernel Oops on Large File Transfers
Post by: Luke Drumm on April 02, 2002, 02:57:32 AM

My guess is something related to smbd.
I find my local networking crashes badly if I try and 'push' large files onto the server.

The strange thing is that I can use smbclient to 'pull' exactly the same files off the workstations with no problems.

If you do suffer a 'crash' of the networking, the following commands will restart it for you:

ifdown ethN
ifup ethN

(where ethN is the 'eth' connection used for your local networking. This can be found by running 'ifconfig' from the server command line)

Regards,
Luke

Title: Re: Kernel Oops on Large File Transfers
Post by: Graham on April 02, 2002, 07:59:21 PM

OK,

I have changed HW again :-

Celeron 333 / Epox 3VWM Mobo (VIA)

Hope that its quicker and more reliable !

Tried an old P100 on a VX mobo - stable but slow . . .

Title: Re: Kernel Oops on Large File Transfers
Post by: Graham on April 03, 2002, 11:01:27 AM

Yes,

The Celeron 333 is up and running very nicely on 64Mb RAM.

No problems . . just forgot I left a movie playing from the CD . . 8 x !!!

E-Smith Rocks !