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From: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org>
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On Mar 22, 2005, at 1:24 PM, Vivek Khera wrote:

> Twice today during very heavy network I/O (dumping a large postgres 
> database over the ethernet to another machine on the same switch) I 
> got this error:
>
> Mar 22 03:42:22 d01 kernel: bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting
> Mar 22 10:28:24 d01 kernel: bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting
>

For the archives:  I punted and installed an em based NIC and disabled 
the bge on board via BIOS.  Stable ever since.  See thread in 
freebsd-amd64 list "tyan k8sr lockups" for full gory details.