High load - lost network

[Mel]

On Monday 10 November 2008 15:44:59 Christer Solskogen wrote:
> irq18: em0 atapci1               1198845          4

Since disk and network card share the same IRQ, does the problem occur if you 
generate a similar load, without using disk IO? Like, put a big file on a 
memory disk and bzip it.

Could be a red herring, but good to rule out.
-- 
Mel

Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
    and never get to the software part.