FreeBSD 5.3 hangs on high network load

From: Juan Rodriguez (juan.fco.rodriguez_at_gmail.com)
Date: 02/16/05

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    Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:47:20 +0100
    To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org
    
    

    Hello everyone,

    Just for your information (because I guess there's nothing
    else we can do....), I will describe the setup I've got
    in case anyone would like to reproduce the problem and
    try to fix it.

    I'm using FreeBSD 5.3.0 RELEASE on an Pentium I MMX 233,
    with 128 MB of RAM (minus 1 MB that my onboard VGA card
    takes off). The motherboard is ASUS SPv97 (or something like that)

    I've disabled ACPI and I boot on safe mode, but my computer
    still gets stalled (tho it doesn't show any panic nor any other
    output) after a few minutes running what I will describe below.

    I've got another computer running Windows98, I run eMule
    on this computer and the sharing folders are located on
    the FreeBSD machine, so I use samba to log on Windows
    and to access the appropiate folders.

    After a few minutes running samba with high network load
    between these machines, my FreeBSD box hangs up....strangely,
    the led of the switch that connects both machines continues
    blinking...but the FreeBSD box doesn't respond neither
    to the keyboard nor to pings probes.

    The network card is a cheap realteak (rl driver).

    I'd really like to see this problem fixed as soon as possible.
    Thanks!
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