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I am running Debian Squeeze with Xen 4.0. I am running a stress test. I have created 2 virtual machines, each with 512 Mb of memory adn 8Gb in size. I have made one of the vms an NFS server, sharing out a large file (4.6 Gb). The other virtual machine is an NFS client. The stress test consists of passing that big file back and forth via an mv command executed on the client, which moves the file

...with the kernel options "acpi=off noacpi" would fix it, but it did not. I tried added explicit modprobe options for the driver in /etc/modprobe.conf (options e1000 XsumRX=0 Speed=1000 Duplex=2 InterruptThrottleRate=0 FlowControl=3 RxDescriptors=4096 TxDescriptors=4096 RxIntDelay=0 TxIntDelay=0). Still no change. Still getting experiencing the problem. I then tried another suggestion I found in a forum discussion `ethtool -K eth0 tso=off`. Seems to have had no effect on the problem. This problem occurs immediately when the system is trying to bring the device up. I cannot even get...

Hey all I''m new to Linux and Virtualizing. I''m trying to dedicate my nic''s to each virtual server. For instance, virt server A would use nic1 and virt server B would use nic2 and so on. I''ve been reading some stuff for this list and to tell you the truth I''m a bit overwhelmed. We are going to run SLES10.1 and Xen. I would appreciate any assistance.