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From: Simon Shapiro <Shimon@i-Connect.Net>
To: dg@root.com
Subject: Re: PCI Bridge Question
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Hi David Greenman;  On 08-Jul-97 you wrote: 
> >>    Then what version was it failing under?
> >
> >RELENG_2_2 as of Saturday.  Are you maintaining this driver?  Is there a
> >maintainer?  Should I dig into it?
> 
>    I wrote it; I maintain it.

Great.  Now i know who to blame :-)

> 
> >> an mbuf cluster had been freed onto the mclfree list. In any case,
> this
> >> appears to be a much more generic problem - not specific to the fxp
> >> device
> >> driver.
> >
> >Most likely.  The fxp is where I see it on this system.
> 
>    I can't reproduce the problem here, but I haven't tried very hard. Is
> NFS
> static in your kernel, or is it getting loaded as an LKM?

* Setup BONDING PPP (128Kbps)
* NFS mount a large file system (say, FreeBSD/packages-current) directly
  form the host you PPP to
* cd to the NFS mount point
* find . | cpio -dmpv /somewhere/else
* Go about your business
* Wait about 20-30 minutes

[ I don't really expect you to do that.  This is the setup I am using to
  ``prove'' the problem ]

...

>    Use -current kernel with -current userland sources; start with 2.2.2
> and
> upgrade to -current ("3.0") with a "make world" if necessary.

I understand the procedure and it works well.  I was inquiring about 2.2
userland and -current kernel.  Guess your answer is ``no''.  the more I play
with it, the less I like it (the hybrid idea).

Simon