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If you ran, like I, into the "too many frags" error introduced into the xen netback a while ago (http://www.nfoservers.com/forums/viewto ... =47&t=8980), here's a heads up - the patch that fixes it has been pulled into the mainstream kernels:
Which means your distributions will have these soon too. In Ubuntu at least, you can check the changelog of whichever new kernel they're giving to you by doing
Since it's a change to netback and not netfront, it's likely that we'll need to upgrade the kernel on our end for the improvement to be felt (if it does end up helping). This means that our customers should start seeing it within the next few weeks.
Yes, this needs to be done on dom0. It fixes the original bug that caused reporting "too many frags" when the situation was legitimate. On top of all, the error itself becomes non-fatal, so even if it occurred, the interface isn't shut down as it is now.
I've been waiting for this patch for - pretty much since I ran into this issue in April. Let's just hope this doesn't introduce a new bug.
Would this be an issue with Windows as well? On my VDS, each time I reboot, I have go into the VNC console, and disable driver signing because of some issue with the xen driver. It is a real pain. You'd think disabling it once, would keep it disabled. But I have to do it every time I reboot the VDS.
If something causes the VDS to reboot when I'm not around, then it hangs there till I get home to disable the driver signing for that xen driver.
TacTicToe, that would be a separate problem, and one that I haven't heard of a customer having before. The latest GPLPV drivers on Windows are actually signed with a regular certificate and shouldn't need test-signing enabled.
