dell poweredge 1950 : not rebooting under 6.1 (sometimes) + bce0 issues

[Julian Stacey]

> From:		Olivier Mueller <om-lists-bsd at omx.ch> 
Olivier Mueller wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 14:51 +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> > --------
> > > On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 11:44 +0200, Olivier Mueller wrote:
> > > bce0: /usr/src/sys/dev/bce/if_bce.c(4644): Error mapping mbuf into TX
> >
> > Maybe try eg /usr/ports/comms/ 44bsd-rdist rdist6 or other coms
> > packs. to get you by for now, while you & others in parallel
> > worry about what kernel prob. you'r tickling  ?
> 
> So this could be a problem specific/related to rsync?  I just made a

Don't know, just thought it might give more perspective to analyse,
get job done, & avoid work of decamping to Linux ;-)

> quick check transfering 250 MB by ftp from the server, and it worked
> fine  (just one large file), then a rsync of /usr/ports to another
> server -> crash after just 30MB transfered. 

A kernel here was crashing under load.  /usr/ports/sysutils/xmbmon
showed high CPU temps.  A bigger cooler solved it. Just a thought.

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