FreeBSD 5.3 hangs on high network load

[Juan Rodriguez]

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 11:59:21 +0000 (GMT), Robert Watson
<rwatson at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> 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.  

Hi.

As I was telling on my first email, the machine doesn't respond
to pings.

Bye and thanks!


>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
> 
>