Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 23:56:53 +0200 From: Walter Hop <walter@binity.com> To: Axel Scheepers <axel@axel.truedestiny.net> Cc: Rob King <james.king@wholefoods.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re[2]: Possible bug in miibus, fxp, and xl? Message-ID: <16632662726.20020504235653@binity.com> In-Reply-To: <20020504203129.I13115@mars.thuis> References: <3CD2E8D1.1040100@wholefoods.com> <20020504203129.I13115@mars.thuis>
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[in reply to axel@axel.truedestiny.net, 04-05-2002] >> I'm running 4.5-RELEASE, i386 on a Dell server box. The machine >> keeps locking up whenever I do large network transfers. At first I >> thought it was a problem with the on-motherboard ethernet card (xl0), >> but when I put an fxp-driven card in, and removed kernel support for >> xl0, it still locks up on large network transfers. I have experienced this with a certain newer batch of fxp's - They all caused sudden lockups or reboots (no panics) with a large network load; this seemed to be the case especially when the fxp was combined with certain other hardware such as an ahc SCSI controller (although they did not share any resources..) Stresstesting a test machine yielded a reboot within the hour. The same setup with a D-LINK network card (ste device) withstood the same stress test (a lot of bzip2'ing over NFS and packetflooding) without problems. Overall the D-LINK card was a very nice experience; if you can't find the source of your problems, you could try one of those. -- Walter Hop <walter@binity.com> | +31 6 24452020 | PGP keyid 0x84813998 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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