5.3-RC1 - Hangs on high net load(?)

[Joshua Beard]

On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 09:55:36AM -0700, Joshua Beard wrote:
> After upgrading from 5.2.1 to 5.3-RC1 (including a recompile of all
> ports), I noticed my system locking up when there was a high network
> load.  A common way to reproduce this is to run a BiTTorrent client and,
> say, copy a file to another local machine over NFS.  The computer does
> not respond to pings or any key presses.  I'm using the lnc(4) driver
> for an AMD PCnet PCI ethernet card (exact model escapes me)
> [Am79C970/1/2/3/5/6 PCnet LANCE PCI Ethernet Controller].  (I'm aware of
> the pcn(4) driver, but cannot get it to recognize the card).  I can
> reproduce this with both the 4BSD and ULE schedulers, if that matters.
> 
> All relevant sysctl variables are defaults. Is this a known issue?
> Any ideas?  Thanks.
> 

And after posting, I, of course, find that it's seemingly a known issue.
Oh well. Yay RC2.

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