Sorry but maybe I was not so clear, the problem disappeared when we made the clients into full workstations and not use LTSP.<br><br>regards<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 8:36 AM, jbarry <<a href="mailto:jbgonzaga@gmail.com">jbgonzaga@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi John,<br><br>We were not able to fully solve the problem, since the school opted to make individual workstations out of the 'fat clients' (they were fairly powerful). But the max_interrupt number that worked for me was 16 but I would still hit the error when too many students access flash game sites.<br> <br>I guess the best way for others to not encounter this problem is don't buy this kind of lan card or maybe create a list of cards that gives this problem.<br><br>Anyway, I am not connected with the project anymore, just lurking here to be updated with whats the latest.<br> <br>regards!<br><font color="#888888"><br>jbarry</font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br> <br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 6:16 AM, Jim Kronebusch <<a href="mailto:jim@winonacotter.org" target="_blank">jim@winonacotter.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 16:12:47 -0800, john wrote<br> <div>> Hi all,<br> ><br> > I sent this as a reply to an old topic about firefox, but I decided<br> > since this is not a firefox question, I'd send<br> > it again with a  more pertinent subject line.<br> ><br> > Problem:<br> ><br> > Recently we've had our edubuntu server become unresponive when we have<br> > 20 or so users on it. We are running a two dual cores and 8 gigs of<br> > ram so I don't think the CPU or memory is the problem.<br> ><br> > When I look at syslog or do dmesg I  see "eth1: too many iterations<br> > (6) in nv_nic_irq." these are typically the last messages logged right<br> > before my server locks up and needs a hard reboot.<br> > I see folks ran into this problem last August.<br> ><br> >  I was wondering if jbarry (the person who first reported this<br> > problem) ended up merely replacing the nics or did anyone  go with<br> > creating a file called  "/etc/modprobe.d/forcedeth" and putting<br> > "options forcedeth max_interrupt_work=10" in it. Did it work?<br> ><br> >  I am trying to decide which<br> > course to take and I'd appreciate any ideas folks could give me.<br> <br> </div>Read this thread, long read but it might give you some insight:<br> <br> <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/130075" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/130075</a><br> <br> It looks like they are attributing this all to a problem between kernel versions and<br> certain motherboards.<br> <br> Jim<br> <font color="#888888"><br> --<br> This message has been scanned for viruses and<br> dangerous content by the Cotter Technology<br> Department, and is believed to be clean.<br> </font><div><div></div><div><br> <br> --<br> edubuntu-users mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br>