7.0 crashes

[illoai at gmail.com]

On 16/03/2008, Firas Kraiem <firas at itsuki.fkraiem.org> wrote:
> On Sunday 16 March 2008 20:43:03 illoai at gmail.com wrote:
>  > On 16/03/2008, Firas Kraiem <firas at itsuki.fkraiem.org> wrote:
>  > > Greetings
>  > >
>  > >  I have a 7.0 system (upgraded from 6.2 to 6.3 then to 7.0 using
>  > >  freebsd-update) and I've experienced a few system crashes (the
>  > > system just hard-reboots on it's own) that seem to happen when it
>  > > is under heavy network load (downloading at several
>  > > megabytes/second).
>  > >
>  > >  Nothing gets written in /var/log/messages when the crashes happen,
>  > > and I'm a bit clueless about how to investigate the issue further,
>  > > so ideas would be much appreciated.
>  >
>  > Lo, back in the days of fbsd4.1.1 (or thereabouts) a
>  > similar problem had I: random crashes under network
>  > load with no core files, no dumps, no errors.
>  >
>  > Try replacing your NIC.
>
>
> Thanks for your answer.
>
>  The NIC in question is a Realtek 8139 and indeed, Google told me that a
>  few people have been experiencing similar issues with it. However, that
>  was with old (4.x/5.x) FreeBSD releases, so I'm wondering: is this
>  particular NIC model still causing problems or is it the NIC breaking
>  in some way? The reason I ask is that the machine is a dedicated server
>  over which I have no hardware control, so asking the provider to
>  replace the NIC with another model could be a bit bothersome.

I couldn't possibly say in your case, but in mine it was
a 3com xl nic that had simply gone crackers.

Any time I get weird, dumpless reboots I suspect hard-
ware.  Or Thor.

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