On Sunday 16 March 2008 20:43:03 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 16/03/2008, Firas Kraiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Greetings > > > > I have a 7.0 system (upgraded from 6.2 to 6.3 then to 7.0 using > > freebsd-update) and I've experienced a few system crashes (the > > system just hard-reboots on it's own) that seem to happen when it > > is under heavy network load (downloading at several > > megabytes/second). > > > > Nothing gets written in /var/log/messages when the crashes happen, > > and I'm a bit clueless about how to investigate the issue further, > > so ideas would be much appreciated. > > Lo, back in the days of fbsd4.1.1 (or thereabouts) a > similar problem had I: random crashes under network > load with no core files, no dumps, no errors. > > Try replacing your NIC.
Thanks for your answer. The NIC in question is a Realtek 8139 and indeed, Google told me that a few people have been experiencing similar issues with it. However, that was with old (4.x/5.x) FreeBSD releases, so I'm wondering: is this particular NIC model still causing problems or is it the NIC breaking in some way? The reason I ask is that the machine is a dedicated server over which I have no hardware control, so asking the provider to replace the NIC with another model could be a bit bothersome. Firas -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments GnuPG public key: http://itsuki.fkraiem.org/gpgkey _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
