From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 31 22:17:23 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F24916A4CE for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 22:17:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from imo-d20.mx.aol.com (imo-d20.mx.aol.com [205.188.139.136]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F53943D58 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 22:17:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from TM4525@aol.com) Received: from TM4525@aol.com by imo-d20.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v37_r3.8.) id t.75.370b87b3 (3866); Sun, 31 Oct 2004 17:17:17 -0500 (EST) From: TM4525@aol.com Message-ID: <75.370b87b3.2eb6be6c@aol.com> Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 17:17:16 EST To: josh@hewbert.com MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: 9.0 for Windows sub 5114 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3-RC1 - Hangs on high net load(?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 22:17:23 -0000 > Are you certain that its not NFS that's locking up? Certainly the use > of NFS muddies the issue, as it doesnt like losing packets and isn't > very eloquent in its handling of adversity. "I'm positive. The machine itself locks up. I cannot ctrl+alt+del, can't switch VCs; it freezes. NFS isn't necessarily a part of the problem anyway. Just general net load seems to do it. For example, if I start multiple downloads with using Bittorent. I haven't narrowed the issue down terribly far, though. It did not hang while grabbing an ISO via HTTP at ~300 KBps. It does, however, hang when there's significant load and Bittorent is part of the formula. But it doesn't _always_ hang when using it." ---------------- Have you ruled out livelock?