[svlug] Occasional network problem (ubuntu machine to router)

[Andrew Wilcox]

Is the CPU usage abnormally high when the network problems happen?
Are you running something like beagle or something that would
intermittantly use a lot of CPU?

If this is a (very) low-end machine, that could cause packet drops.
I've seen it happen before on low-end machines that are overloaded.

Hope that helps,
Andrew

On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 4:49 AM, Erik Steffl <steffl at tsoft.com> wrote:
> In last few days I started to get occasional (lasts 5 - 20 min or so)
> network problems between router and a ubuntu machine. The problem is
> that network performance goes sharply down, when I run ping from machine
> to router most of the packets are lost (it varies how bad it is).
>
> I didn't see anything suspicious in the logs, disconnecting and
> reconnecting (both software and unplugging/re-plugging the network
> cable) doesn't make any difference.
>
> Other computer connected to the same router works fine.
>
> The problem fixes itself after some time (and the network works fine).
>
> Any ideas how to troubleshoot this? Given that it either works or
> (almost) doesn't it seems like it's not wire problem (I don't touch the
> network cable so it seems unlikely that it would work most of the time
> but not all the time and that it would fix itself without any
> intervention). It only happens in last few days, didn't do any HW changes.
>
> System:
>
>   Ubuntu 8.10
>
> [   11.170407] eth1: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xb000, 00:50:ba:4d:1a:58, IRQ 18
> [   11.170414] eth1:  Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C'
> [   11.190809] 8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.3 (Mar 22, 2004)
>
>   Router: Netgear RangeMax WNR834B v2
>
>   thanks,
>
>        erik
>
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