From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 16 12:00:44 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B2C716A4CE for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 12:00:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [204.156.12.53]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31AFE43D2D for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 12:00:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C31E546B43; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 07:00:43 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 11:59:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Juan Rodriguez In-Reply-To: <96b30c4005021601471c058d0f@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3 hangs on high network load X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 12:00:44 -0000 On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Juan Rodriguez wrote: > Just for your information (because I guess there's nothing else we can > do....), I will describe the setup I've got in case anyone would like to > reproduce the problem and try to fix it. > > I'm using FreeBSD 5.3.0 RELEASE on an Pentium I MMX 233, with 128 MB of > RAM (minus 1 MB that my onboard VGA card takes off). The motherboard is > ASUS SPv97 (or something like that) If possible, the first thing would be to try moving to the head of 5-STABLE to see if the bug has already been fixed there already or not. A significant number of interesting bugs have been fixed since the release of 5.3. If that doesn't correct the problem, the next thing to do is to take a look at the section of the handbook on reporting kernel panics and hangs. It would be quite interesting to know if the machine still responds to pings once it has appeared to hang. There have been reported problems with realtek network cards, it would probably be premature to blame the hardware at this point. Robert N M Watson