FreeBSD 5.3 hangs on high network load

[Juan Rodriguez]

Hello again,

I've cvsup'ed the kernel sources a few hours ago (RELENG_5),
and I've recompiled.

Now I cannot boot, it gives me "kernel panic" when booting on
"rlphy0"....this is really very annoying. I'm at work now,
I cannot give you more details...it took me 4 hours to
recompile the kernel, so Im not willing to do this again,
if you are really interested in debugging, I will
need your collaboration, I can give you an account
on my system if you want to.

thanks




On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 07:16:46 -0500 (EST), c0ldbyte
<c0ldbyte at myrealbox.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, 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.
> >
> 
> If im correct ive allready heard of this issue being solved. And should
> allready be patched in. Checkout the latest RELENG_5_3 and build your
> kernel over again and run that for a while "FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p5"
> otherwise try a different version of 'samba*' or see if there are some
> tweaks in the 'LINT' for the card itself. Im not quite sure why you would
> run in safe mode but whatever trips your trigger. 'mount_smbfs' instead
> of running 'samba' itself might also help you out a bit.
> 
> Best regards
>        -- c0ldbyte
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