[realtek] rtl8139.o - Tx queue start entry xxx dirty entry yyy

[Donald Becker]

On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Sebastian Haberey wrote:

> I'm experiencing a problem with rtl8139.o under SuSE linux 7.1 mentioned 
> before in this list; however I didn't manage to find the solution.

What driver version?
What is the detection message?
Is this an SMP or uniprocessor?  A SMP kernel?

> Symptoms: when under high load (transferring 30Mb files @ 100Mbit/s) transfer 
> stops for about 5 to 10 seconds and the log shows entries like
> 
> Sep  4 15:34:05 firewall kernel: eth0: Tx queue start entry 15639  dirty 
> entry 15639.

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