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Date:      Mon, 1 Nov 2004 09:48:06 -0700
From:      Joshua Beard <josh@hewbert.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 5.3-RC1 - Hangs on high net load(?)
Message-ID:  <20041101164806.GA1117@hewbert.com>
In-Reply-To: <20041031165536.GA755@hewbert.com>
References:  <20041031165536.GA755@hewbert.com>

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On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 09:55:36AM -0700, Joshua Beard wrote:
> After upgrading from 5.2.1 to 5.3-RC1 (including a recompile of all
> ports), I noticed my system locking up when there was a high network
> load.  A common way to reproduce this is to run a BiTTorrent client and,
> say, copy a file to another local machine over NFS.  The computer does
> not respond to pings or any key presses.  I'm using the lnc(4) driver
> for an AMD PCnet PCI ethernet card (exact model escapes me)
> [Am79C970/1/2/3/5/6 PCnet LANCE PCI Ethernet Controller].  (I'm aware of
> the pcn(4) driver, but cannot get it to recognize the card).  I can
> reproduce this with both the 4BSD and ULE schedulers, if that matters.
> 
> All relevant sysctl variables are defaults. Is this a known issue?
> Any ideas?  Thanks.
> 

And after posting, I, of course, find that it's seemingly a known issue.
Oh well. Yay RC2.

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Joshua Beard
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