6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

[Scott Long]

David G Lawrence wrote:

>>>   Attached is a simple user program that will immediately cause pretty much
>>>all of the network drivers (at least the ones I own) to stop working and
>>>get watchdog timeouts.
>>
>>I am runnign this on a single processor machine with an SMP kernel and
>>it does not have any effect. I dont tink I have any single processor machines
>>running a non SMP kernel to try it on though. Not particularly helpful I know. I'll
> 
> 
>    Actually, I think it is helpful to know that the program only has an
> effect on some machines. We just need to figure out what the common
> denominator is.
> 
> 

Are you enabling an option, like IPv6, that puts Giant over the network 
stack?

Scott