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Re: [Xen-users] massive packet loss under network and disk load

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] massive packet loss under network and disk load
From: Steve Wray <steve.wray@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:56:42 +1200
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Ryan Burke wrote:
As mentioned on a post to a thread about drbd and Xen I've been seeing
some horrific packet loss under network and disk IO load which has been
causing huge problems for drbd syncing and replication.
[snip]

Just out of curiosity have you disabled TX checksums? I didn't follow your
previous thread so I don't know that others had suggested. Try "ethtool -
K eth0 tx off" and see if that helps your TX packet loss.


Yes that was among the options I tested and it made no difference.


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