[mythtv-users] SOLVED Random lockups on Mythbackend

[Anthony Giggins]

On 11 April 2011 10:08, Jay Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Calvin Dodge" <caldodge at gmail.com>
> > To: "Discussion about MythTV" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> > Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2011 6:03:53 PM
> > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] SOLVED Random lockups on Mythbackend
>
> > On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 3:54 PM, <f-myth-users at media.mit.edu> wrote:
> > > Fixed by dropping an Intel gigabit NIC into a free PCIe slot and
> > > deciding I would never use a Realtek NIC again. (Tons of instability
> > > in various kernel bug reports, as I discovered doing the research.)
> > > Fortunately, it's a $30 NIC and I had the slot, but I'm still
> > > annoyed.
> >
> > I have my issues with Intel, but I'm very happy with their NICs, and
> > always order one of theirs when an additional NIC is needed.
>
> For what it's worth, I've only ever had 2 problems in 20 years with Realtek
> NICs; one was an 8139c that was a bad card, and the other, on a motherboard
> (ASUS, I think) that... no, that wasn't even a Realtek; in that case, the
> Realtek was the *fix* (an 8169 on a PCI card, replacing dual Gigabits
> for which the SuSE 11.2 drivers were simply too new, and locked the box up
> hard regularly, but not repeatably).
>
> So only one.  :-)
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
> _______________________________________________
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>
I had an issues with an onboard sky2 based NIC on an intel P4 motherboard,
if it had any sort of high network load the network would stop functioning
until you restarted the network services.

limiting file transfers to 1MB/sec was painful :( so recently replaced it
with a Core i5 so much faster and and extra 3 cores is great for transcoding
and commflagging.

Cheers,

Anthony
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