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Date:      Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:18:07 +0100
From:      Max Laier <max@love2party.net>
To:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Cc:        Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 5.3 hangs on high network load
Message-ID:  <200502161318.24333.max@love2party.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1050216115645.4054B-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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On Wednesday 16 February 2005 12:59, Robert Watson wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Juan Rodriguez wrote:
> > Just for your information (because I guess there's nothing else we can
> > do....), I will describe the setup I've got in case anyone would like to
> > reproduce the problem and try to fix it.
> >
> > I'm using FreeBSD 5.3.0 RELEASE on an Pentium I MMX 233, with 128 MB of
> > RAM (minus 1 MB that my onboard VGA card takes off). The motherboard is
> > ASUS SPv97 (or something like that)
>
> If possible, the first thing would be to try moving to the head of
> 5-STABLE to see if the bug has already been fixed there already or not.  A
> significant number of interesting bugs have been fixed since the release
> of 5.3.  If that doesn't correct the problem, the next thing to do is to
> take a look at the section of the handbook on reporting kernel panics and
> hangs.  It would be quite interesting to know if the machine still
> responds to pings once it has appeared to hang.  There have been reported
> problems with realtek network cards, it would probably be premature to
> blame the hardware at this point.

Still, in case moving to RELENG_5 does not help, you could try the patch in=
=20
kern/61448 that addresses one of the rl(4) issues and is pending for to be=
=20
MFCed.

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