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Date:      Tue, 25 Aug 1998 20:28:21 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Scott Drassinower <scottd@cloud9.net>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Intel 100+ troubles 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9808252023260.11750-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>
In-Reply-To: <199808251717.RAA00891@dingo.cdrom.com>

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On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Mike Smith wrote:

> There have been some serious NFS-related fixes subsequent to 2.2.6; it 
> is quite possible that you're seeing the bugs that these addressed 
> rather than a hardware problem.  It is useful to add the 'l' flag to 
> ps(1) and see what the hung processes have in their WCHAN field, as 
> this gives more detail than just "disk wait".

UID   PID  PPID CPU PRI NI   VSZ  RSS WCHAN  STAT  TT       TIME COMMAND
  0  2438  2429   0 -18  0   228  520 vmopar D     p4-   0:00.02 sz

vmopar is new to me.

> If you have an opportunity, you might want to build a 2.2.7 kernel and
> see if you can reproduce the problems.  If you don't have the resources
> to do this in-house, you should be able to ask on the freebsd-stable
> list for someone to generate a -stable kernel for you to try.

Will I need a 2.2.7 system to build a 2.2.7 kernel?  

It's just really weird that the problem only seems to happen at 100
megabits.  The only thing I haven't done at this point is taken out the
fxp card and tried something else.

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