@Andrew Chambers

Awesome. Actually, the latest driver release is just a few weeks old.
These drivers might not have worked prior to that in 10.10, but I
haven't investigated.

@khaldan

Before Gentoo I was using Ubuntu 10.04 on this system also and did not
see the issue there. I guess I have been switching OSs a lot lately.

Anyway, if it's loading the buggy driver again I can think of two things that 
might cause it:
1. Loading a new kernel, or running an update.
2. You have the module saved in your initramfs image.

You can probably check for the second scenario with something like:
$ cat /boot/initrd.img-$(uname -r) | zcat | cpio --list 2>/dev/null | grep r8168

If the module is listed, and you have already installed the driver from the 
Realtek website, maybe the following command will help you (for the next time 
you boot):
$ sudo update-initramfs -k all -c

Agreed - I should have called it a work-around and not a fix.

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Title:
  System lock-up when receiving large files over a Realtek NIC (big data
  amount) from NFS server

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