panic during nfs operations in 4.8S on Dell 2650

[Mark Powell]

On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Mark Powell wrote:
>   We've recently got a couple of Dell Poweredge 2650's with 2x2.8GHz
> Xeons, 4GB RAM, PERC 3/Di (aac) RAID controller. They are mounting a 700GB
> fs over NFS from a NetAPP. They are connected to a Cisco 3550-12T gigabit
> over copper switch. I tried them first on the intel em cards and they
> panicked and also the internal bge adapters with the same result.
>   Thought everything was fine until I was rsyncing the POP3 mail stores
> from the old machines onto these. Rsync runs for about an hour or so and
> get's large. In the 300M-600M region the system will always panic. This
> happens on both systems, so doesn't seem a hardware fault.

This is a 4.8S kernel and world rebuilt as of today.

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