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

[TM4525 at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/31/04 11:56:29 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
josh at hewbert.com writes:
>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.

Are you certain that its not NFS that's locking up? Certainly the use
of NFS muddies the issue, as it doesnt like losing packets and isn't 
very eloquent in its handling of adversity.