High load - lost network

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 01:45:44PM +0100, Christer Solskogen wrote:
> I have a server with a em interface. Whenever the server has a high load
> (compiling world for instance) the network connectivity is lost.
> 
> dmesg tells me this:
> em0: link state changed to DOWN
> em0: link state changed to UP
> em0: link state changed to DOWN
> em0: link state changed to UP
> em0: link state changed to DOWN
> em0: link state changed to UP
> em0: link state changed to DOWN
> em0: link state changed to UP
> em0: link state changed to DOWN
> em0: link state changed to UP
> 
> Do anyone have a tips for how to workaround this or is the server just junk?

Can you provide "dmesg | grep em0" output?  I'd like to see what version
of NIC this is.

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