From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 16 12:18:29 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 5972616A4CE; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 12:18:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.191]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2C8C43D3F; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 12:18:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from max@love2party.net) Received: from [212.227.126.209] (helo=mrelayng.kundenserver.de) by moutng.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1D1O8R-0003Bd-00; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:18:27 +0100 Received: from [217.227.158.206] (helo=donor.laier.local) by mrelayng.kundenserver.de with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1D1O8R-0006Xe-00; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:18:27 +0100 From: Max Laier To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:18:07 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2692634.yrkSgt8Y39"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200502161318.24333.max@love2party.net> X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de auth:61c499deaeeba3ba5be80f48ecc83056 cc: Juan Rodriguez cc: Robert Watson 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 12:18:29 -0000 --nextPart2692634.yrkSgt8Y39 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 16 February 2005 12:59, Robert Watson wrote: > 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. Still, in case moving to RELENG_5 does not help, you could try the patch in= =20 kern/61448 that addresses one of the rl(4) issues and is pending for to be= =20 MFCed. =2D-=20 /"\ Best regards, | mlaier@freebsd.org \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | mlaier@EFnet / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News --nextPart2692634.yrkSgt8Y39 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCEzoQXyyEoT62BG0RAtu3AJ9CKtGW0+48zH62gVJarUY2XFbEnwCeJ3V1 SoYLnQmvtjWcFsmKr5cz27w= =K9zf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2692634.yrkSgt8Y39--