6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

[Jonathan Chen]

On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 03:25:55PM +0200, Patrick M. Hausen wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 02:42:30PM +0200, Philippe Pegon wrote:
> 
> > it's just a me too. On our ftp server (ftp8.fr.freebsd.org), sometimes
> > we see some "watchdog timeout" in the log with a bge card, but maybe it's
> > not the same problem... :
> 
> As far as I know the watchdog timeouts are _supposed_ to be
> mostly harmless, i.e. recoverable.
> 
> Some people experience additional complete hangs of network
> communications, that may or may not be related to them.

I had "watchdog timeouts" occur on a small network setup, for a:

	ssh remote "cd /usr && tar xf - ports" | tar xvf -

and this resulted in a pretty sparse ports tree on the local drive.
Lots of stuff being dropped. Shifting a single big tar-ball worked
though.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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