kern/106243: [nve] double fault panic in if_nve.c on high loads

[Kris Kennaway]

The following reply was made to PR kern/106243; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Kris Kennaway <kris at FreeBSD.org>
To: Jason Bacon <jbacon at mcw.edu>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org, Remko Lodder <remko at elvandar.org>
Subject: Re: kern/106243: [nve] double fault panic in if_nve.c on high loads
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:24:22 +0100

 Jason Bacon wrote:
 > 
 > One other thing, that you may already be aware of: The problems seem to 
 > have started with FreeBSD 6.2.  I have a couple of PC-BSD 1.3 (FreeBSD 
 > 6.1) workstations, and a FreeBSD 6.1-AMD64 RAID backup server that use 
 > nve with no problems.  The RAID server backs up about 40 workstations 
 > every night using rsync, mostly over NFS.
 
 There was probably an update from the vendor in that timeframe that 
 introduced the bug.  nve is third party binary code with a FreeBSD 
 wrapper so we have limited ability to fix problems.
 
 Kris