>Number:         34023
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       nfe driver stalls constantly
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    kern-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Jul 17 20:10:00 +0000 2006
>Originator:     Perry E. Metzger
>Release:        NetBSD 3.99.22
>Organization:
	
>Environment:
	
	
System: NetBSD ein.piermont.com 3.99.22 NetBSD 3.99.22 (EIN) #0: Sat Jul 15 13:34:42 EDT 2006 perry@ein.piermont.com:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/EIN i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:

Under high constant load -- such as transfering a large file over the
LAN, the nfe ethernet driver stalls out constantly on my machine with:

nfe0: watchdog timeout

When traffic is low, there are almost never any stalls to speak of.

This problem renders the machines much less usable.

>How-To-Repeat:

Easy to repeat on my box. Hard on other people's.

>Fix:
	

>Unformatted: