Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 21:23:11 -0400 From: Carl Chave <carl@chave.us> To: mark rowlands <rowlands.mark@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network sort of stops working with the em (intel) driver under load. Message-ID: <AANLkTik7wtdVY487SIJHJq7Bd8A9X3ytrkDHdLUTrICX@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimHNg9AgZIg3DadvKAdfXfw8J5R5TJLi29vXEs6@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTimHNg9AgZIg3DadvKAdfXfw8J5R5TJLi29vXEs6@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 3:30 PM, mark rowlands <rowlands.mark@gmail.com> wr= ote: > Newly built and cvsupped system,with GENERIC kernel, =A0when copying > large amounts of data over a gigabit link via scp =A0the network =A0will > hang after a couple of gig. =A0I can then no longer login via ssh. If I > leave it be, after about 12-24 hours I can then login again. (A reboot > of course fixes the issue immediately...) . I've had this behavior also with Intel Pro 1000 cards using the em driver. I picked up a lot of 4 of them off ebay and never figured out if it was a driver problem or faulty hardware. I went back to FreeNAS on that same box (7.2-RELEASE-p4) and it seems ok except my Netgear gigabit switch also died so I'm currently plugged into a 100Mbps switch.
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