FreeBSD 5.3 hangs on high network load

[Robert Watson]

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Juan Rodriguez wrote:

> Just for your information (because I guess there's nothing else we can
> do....), I will describe the setup I've got in case anyone would like to
> reproduce the problem and try to fix it. 
> 
> I'm using FreeBSD 5.3.0 RELEASE on an Pentium I MMX 233, with 128 MB of
> RAM (minus 1 MB that my onboard VGA card takes off). The motherboard is
> ASUS SPv97 (or something like that) 

If possible, the first thing would be to try moving to the head of
5-STABLE to see if the bug has already been fixed there already or not.  A
significant number of interesting bugs have been fixed since the release
of 5.3.  If that doesn't correct the problem, the next thing to do is to
take a look at the section of the handbook on reporting kernel panics and
hangs.  It would be quite interesting to know if the machine still
responds to pings once it has appeared to hang.  There have been reported
problems with realtek network cards, it would probably be premature to
blame the hardware at this point.

Robert N M Watson