atl1, hardy, more than 4GB of RAM

[Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)]

NoOp wrote:
>> I have an Asus motherboard shipping an Attlansic (atl1 module) on board 
>> network card interface.
>> It's a brand new computer I put on my LAN in order to be a file server.
>> I noticed some network hangs and even system freezes after the beginning 
>> of heavy network file transferts (via FTP, NFS and SSH).
>> http://atl1.sourceforge.net/, saying:
>>    2. There is a bug in the atl1 driver that results in a kernel hang or
>>    crash (oops) under heavy network load IF AND ONLY IF you have 4GB or
>>    more RAM in your system. This happens because of an L1 hardware design
>>    issue that is exposed by the atl1 driver. If you encounter this
>>    problem, modify your kernel's boot line and add this kernel parameter:
>>    mem=3900M. A fix was added to the 2.6.23 kernel.
>> My system has 8GB of RAM, amd64 architecture and system (AMD Phenom 
>> Quad), and as a file server, it has a heavy network load (7 XDMCP'd 
>> workstations)
>> The quote mentions the bug is solved in the 2.6.23 and hardy (my system) 
>> is running 2.6.24.
>> Have you got any information about that? Didn't the Ubuntu 2.6.24 
>> include the solution of the problem?
> This is probably the bug report that you are looking for:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/133575
> You might want to tag onto that & provide your info and see if one of
> the developers or other users with the same problem find a resolution.

Thanks for pointing me the bug, informations are submitted.