Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> 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.

Sure, but I'm not seeing how SRSS would be at fault in that
scenario.

Mike.
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>>> 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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