Hi Neil,

Now you have encountered two issue: one is unresponsiveness of card
under heavy load, another is crashes under heavy load.

Do you have the call stack from crash? There is a fix for crash here for
your reference:
  http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6874776

Regards,
Crisson
On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 09:35 -0800, Neil McCarthy wrote:
> I have built a storage server based on snv_111b on HCL hardware by Dell.
> 
> I have one NIC interface for management and one for iSCSI and NFS (storage) 
> access.
> 
> Under very heavy load, the storage interface stops responding, the management 
> card remains unaffected.
> 
> I connect via the management interface and can see that the card is still up. 
> A snoop reveals that the storage interface is sending data, but appearing to 
> receive nothing back (I am at a remote location, so have been unable to do a 
> packet trace on the physical switch to determine if the traffic is actually 
> being sent to the server, just not being passed along the stack).
> 
> The symptoms seem to be very similar to bug id 
> http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6727837 - however the 
> workaround seems to apply to e1000g cards.
> 
> Can anyone offer any advice, as I am getting one to two crashes a week at the 
> moment, and it is becoming very frustrating.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Neil


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