From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 17 02:56:57 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 225FB1065672 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:56:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com (wf-out-1314.google.com [209.85.200.171]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00B7D8FC1C for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:56:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 25so5008811wfa.7 for ; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:56:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=hhzglEpksfnYROMjYTl8FT+svGkXzXNdjrOjoJsivvs=; b=u+EOhNBQ79K9Eo4AkjEH8ILFkWLKqeQ8sgqhrldjqClepPaui556jozcHvxLR53cko8z9pyEfX0D5XwFO0crf7JdPJSQfPLC5DWCoCPPV/CFg1LjT1KyAIwu7HNzMJAutKcNJMInoQMkdRSLQIN24Pg/viVvNiCesvZucY0XUr4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=vsxLlrzwJZrdrpmn0mfjQtDnQt4ZBgeMNzRBuUkV9UYetmOVWR5LGgxYn1HNDbBRhdihe6gXHSQ91AjReanByyfj5EnK7oXK4XrmBBvNef8MGS1VThlW4hnzb7yZvKNWnU8Pq6a8UWj2y1JGXcLF7PAXKUtfX4g264q+Ayi9yak= Received: by 10.140.127.13 with SMTP id z13mr7317306rvc.142.1205722616592; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:56:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.141.170.5 with HTTP; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:56:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:56:56 -0400 From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: "Firas Kraiem" In-Reply-To: <200803170108.44645.firas@itsuki.fkraiem.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200803161947.29608.firas@itsuki.fkraiem.org> <200803170108.44645.firas@itsuki.fkraiem.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 7.0 crashes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:56:57 -0000 On 16/03/2008, Firas Kraiem wrote: > On Sunday 16 March 2008 20:43:03 illoai@gmail.com wrote: > > On 16/03/2008, Firas Kraiem wrote: > > > Greetings > > > > > > I have a 7.0 system (upgraded from 6.2 to 6.3 then to 7.0 using > > > freebsd-update) and I've experienced a few system crashes (the > > > system just hard-reboots on it's own) that seem to happen when it > > > is under heavy network load (downloading at several > > > megabytes/second). > > > > > > Nothing gets written in /var/log/messages when the crashes happen, > > > and I'm a bit clueless about how to investigate the issue further, > > > so ideas would be much appreciated. > > > > Lo, back in the days of fbsd4.1.1 (or thereabouts) a > > similar problem had I: random crashes under network > > load with no core files, no dumps, no errors. > > > > Try replacing your NIC. > > > Thanks for your answer. > > The NIC in question is a Realtek 8139 and indeed, Google told me that a > few people have been experiencing similar issues with it. However, that > was with old (4.x/5.x) FreeBSD releases, so I'm wondering: is this > particular NIC model still causing problems or is it the NIC breaking > in some way? The reason I ask is that the machine is a dedicated server > over which I have no hardware control, so asking the provider to > replace the NIC with another model could be a bit bothersome. I couldn't possibly say in your case, but in mine it was a 3com xl nic that had simply gone crackers. Any time I get weird, dumpless reboots I suspect hard- ware. Or Thor. -- --