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Vivek,

When stress testing I never had any issues with the bge NIC on our AMD64 
Tyan S2882 system.

Of course within a day of putting it in production it crashed. Switching 
to the fxp NIC did not fix the crash, although it crashed differently.

If you have a spare server you don't mind crashing, can you try running 
20-60 instances of the following script:

#!/bin/sh

while :
do
         arp -d <some valid IP> >/dev/null 2>&1
         ping -c 1 -t 1 <the same valid IP> >/dev/null 2>&1
done

Thanks,
Gary

Vivek Khera wrote:
> 
> On Jun 28, 2005, at 5:20 AM, Alex Povolotsky wrote:
> 
>> Can anyone enlighten me, if recent crashes are on STABLE only or
>> 5.4-RELEASE is affected as well?
>>
> 
> I have three boxes running 5.4-RELEASE.  one is a mediumly-loaded web  
> server, and two are very heavily loaded database servers.  none of  them 
> ever crash.
> 
> 
> Vivek Khera, Ph.D.
> +1-301-869-4449 x806
> 
>