updating network drivers / bittorrent

Flatop

I have a really simple (but nooby) question. Bittornado is locking my machine up hard after a few minutes of downloading a file. I have tried several different clients (bittorrent, qtorrent, bittornado, etc) and the gui, curses and headless variations. All have the same result - after 2 - 5 minutes, the machine just locks up. I have tried running top and looking at the resources, but nothing jumps out at me. mem is only 300 mb out of 1 gb, processor is not really moving (I have a 3200+). That leaves the NIC.

I am running 2.6.5 r1, with the R8169 driver compiled as a module.

Any ideas?

PhanLord · Apprentice Joined: 19 Nov 2002 Posts: 175

get the vanilla 2.6.6-rc1 kernel it has patches for that network card (i used to have same problems)
the system will crash when there is alot of outgoing traffic.

vanilla-2.6.6 seams to work very good i havnt seen any crashes
like on 2.6.4 or 2.6.5

R!tman · Posted: Sun Apr 18, 2004 5:12 pm Post subject:

Try

PhanLord · Apprentice Joined: 19 Nov 2002 Posts: 175

I dont think that this is a bittorrent problem as i previously said i hade similar problem and i pinpointed it to kernel driver.

Flatop · Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2004 8:33 pm Post subject:

thanks for the tip Phanlord. I'll try that tonight. is it a simple
emerge development-sources-2.6.6_rc1.ebuild
to get the sources - do I need to patch anything else?

I agree with you that it is network related - all three bittorrent methods die at the same time curses, headless and gui.

PhanLord · Apprentice Joined: 19 Nov 2002 Posts: 175

dont know are there any gentoo-dev-sources for 2.6.6 available but im using vanilla-sources 2.6.6-rc1
emerge it, compile new kernel, install it, reboot

and you are set
(not as simple as emerge only but its not as complicated as it sounds

Flatop · Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 4:44 pm Post subject:

I finally got around to upgrading to 2.6.6 rc2 and that did the trick. No more lockups with bittorrent.

Thanks Phanlord.