Under heavy load internet gets killed, only a reboot can bring it back up

[Aniruddha]

On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 21:09 +0900, PYUN Yong-Hyeon wrote:
> This controller is known to buggy one. See below.
> 
> [...]
> 
>  > > Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad16s3a
>  > > WARNING: / was not properly dismounted
>  > > GEOM_LABEL: Label ext2fs/home removed.
>  > > GEOM_LABEL: Label ext2fs/data removed.
>  > > mskc0: Uncorrectable PCI Express error
>  > > mskc0: Uncorrectable PCI Express error
>  > 
>  > Those errors at the end of your dmesg don't look good; could be the sign
>  > of a NIC or motherboard that's going bad, or possibly a very strange
>  > driver problem.
> 
> I guess the message above could be safely ignored.
> 
>  > 
>  > Adding Yong-Hyeon PYUN to this thread, since he helps maintain the
>  > msk(4) driver.  Yong-Hyeon, do you know of any conditions where heavy
>  > network I/O could cause msk(4) to lock up or stop transmitting traffic,
>  > or possibly hard-lock on ifconfig down/up?
>  > 
> 
> I think workaround for the controller bug was committed to HEAD(SVN
> r183346). To original poster, would you try latest if_msk.c from
> HEAD?(Just copy if_msk.c/if_mskreg.h from HEAD to your box.)
> 

You got to help me a little bit here. How do I achieve this? Btw I am
running FreeBSD 7.1 BETA. Doesn't that mean the fix is already applied?


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Regards,

Aniruddha