FreeBSD 8.0 - network stack crashes?

[Weldon S Godfrey 3]

If memory serves me right, sometime around 5:02pm, Gavin Atkinson told me:

> On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 10:43 -0500, Weldon S Godfrey 3 wrote:
>> This output was from a kernel on 12/08.  The issue really came up while we
>> tried to swap to 8.0-RC2.  We plan to swap back sometime in the near
>> future.  The same symptoms happened with RC2 so I am sure it is a kmem
>> exhaustion.  I am guessing v3 requires a lot more.  When we switch, i'll
>> change to using the em card.
>
> Sorry, can you clarify: have you ever tested the em card with the
> 8.0-RC2 kernel?
>

We briefly tried em card with RC2 but went back because it didn't help at 
the time.  But we are planning to go back to RC2 soon and I also plan to 
use the em card instead.