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Date:      Wed, 16 Feb 2005 17:27:19 +0100
From:      Juan Rodriguez <juan.fco.rodriguez@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 5.3 hangs on high network load
Message-ID:  <96b30c4005021608277b1db92@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <96b30c4005021607117ec44df7@mail.gmail.com>
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Hey, one quick question about this,

should I cvsup either to RELENG_5_3 or to RELENG_5 ?
I thought RELENG_5 was the right thing to do, but 
as Im experiencing problems, I will give RELENG_5_3
a try...I will tellyou if that works for me (more news 
about 4-5 hours later...:)

bye


On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 16:11:52 +0100, Juan Rodriguez
<juan.fco.rodriguez@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello again,
> 
> I've cvsup'ed the kernel sources a few hours ago (RELENG_5),
> and I've recompiled.
> 
> Now I cannot boot, it gives me "kernel panic" when booting on
> "rlphy0"....this is really very annoying. I'm at work now,
> I cannot give you more details...it took me 4 hours to
> recompile the kernel, so Im not willing to do this again,
> if you are really interested in debugging, I will
> need your collaboration, I can give you an account
> on my system if you want to.
> 
> thanks
> 
> 
> On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 07:16:46 -0500 (EST), c0ldbyte
> <c0ldbyte@myrealbox.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, 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.
> > >
> >
> > If im correct ive allready heard of this issue being solved. And should
> > allready be patched in. Checkout the latest RELENG_5_3 and build your
> > kernel over again and run that for a while "FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p5"
> > otherwise try a different version of 'samba*' or see if there are some
> > tweaks in the 'LINT' for the card itself. Im not quite sure why you would
> > run in safe mode but whatever trips your trigger. 'mount_smbfs' instead
> > of running 'samba' itself might also help you out a bit.
> >
> > Best regards
> >        -- c0ldbyte
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