From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 6 5:51:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0860F37B401 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 05:51:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from magellan.palisadesys.com (magellan.palisadesys.com [192.188.162.211]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4798143E77 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 05:51:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ghelmer@palisadesys.com) Received: from localhost (ghelmer@localhost) by magellan.palisadesys.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gA6Dp6Z19791; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 07:51:06 -0600 Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 07:51:06 -0600 (CST) From: Guy Helmer To: Al-Afu Cc: Subject: Re: 4.7 RELEASE crashing when transferring large files over the network In-Reply-To: <1036574796.963.6.camel@krista.webcraft99.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 6 Nov 2002, Al-Afu wrote: > Dear All, > > As per the subject line, I have been experiencing this for the past two > weeks now. > > References: > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=222082+0+archive/2002/freebsd-stable/20021027.freebsd-stable > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=630174+0+archive/2002/freebsd-stable/20021020.freebsd-stable > > Symptoms: > When I transfer a large file across the network, either via SMB or scp, > my 4.7-RELEASE will initiate a transfer for around a minute, then > everything will cease. System will crash leaving no core dumps for me to > submit a backtrace. I even have a 700MB file handy whenever I feel the > mood to crash my 4.7-RELEASE. > ... > NOTE: I am ruling out faulty hardware since I dont get this behaviour if > I re-boot with 4.6.2-RELEASE kernel. What hardware devices do you have on your system? In particular, the fxp driver in 4.7 for the Intel Fast Ethernet interface may cause crashes. A fix for this problem is being worked on... Guy -- Guy Helmer, Ph.D. http://www.palisadesys.com/~ghelmer Sr. Software Engineer, Palisade Systems ghelmer@palisadesys.com "In this place it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place." -- Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message