On Tue, 05 Feb 2013 10:16:34 +0000 Tomasz Kusmierz <tom.kusmierz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > that I was using one of those fantastic pci 4 port ethernet cards and > printer was directly to it - after moving it and everything else to > switch all problem and issues have went away. AT the moment I'm running > server for 2 weeks without any corruptions, any random kernel btrfs > crashes etc. If moving the printer over to a switch helped, perhaps it is indeed an electrical interference problem, but if your card is an old one from Sun, keep in mind that they also have some problems with DMA on machines with large amounts of RAM: "sunhme" experiences corrupt packets if machine has more than 2GB of memory https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10790 Not hard to envision a horror story scenario where a rogue network card would shred your filesystem buffer cache with network packets DMAed all over it, like bullets from a machine gun :) But in reality afaik IOMMU is supposed to protect against this. -- With respect, Roman
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