Mike Oliver wrote:
> Mike Ford Ditto wrote:
>
>> Is this panic a known problem? I just tried to use a Sun Ray for the
>> first time since I upgraded from snv_62 to snv_91 and I get this panic
>> within a few minutes every time I log in to a Sun Ray. I don't know if
>> this is a bug in SRSS or OpenSolaris but I thought I'd mention it here
>> in case it's something that should be fixed.
>>
>
> SRSS doesn't have any in-kernel networking components. All of
> its network traffic comes through sockets from user-level
> processes. So it's hard to see how SRSS could be the cause of
> this panic.
>
From my own experience, SRSS stresses the NIC driver in some unusual
ways. A long (long!) time ago I had a problem with my NIC driver that
only ever manifested after a couple hours of use as a Sun Ray
interconnect. Ordinary use (NFS, NIS, etc.) didn't trigger it at all.
-- Garrett
>
>> The server is running SXCE snv_91 (amd64), Masayuki Murayama's vfe
>> driver, and SRSS 3.1. Sun Rays were working fine when I was running
>> snv_62. I just tried upgrading the vfe driver from 2.3.1 to 2.6.2a, but
>> still get the panics.
>>
>> Maybe SRSS 3.1 is just buggy on newer Nevada builds (post-Clearview,
>> perhaps)?
>>
>
> SRSS 4.0 was released last month and would be a better choice on
> Nevada, but I wouldn't expect it to behave any differently as far
> as a networking panic is concerned.
>
> Mike.
>
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